http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/bf1a56665dd0ac85111e1ab05b5510ef.PDF ade3f2f7b5ed1b911eac3f271e219604 PDF Text Text SEAFA1IERS«L06 Monk 14 1458 • OFFICIAL OR6AN OF THl SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND 6ULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • RUNAWAYS IN BID liv • .'.f- 'I ."I "I Story On Page 3 Story On Page 2 Job Well Done. the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union (left) are greeted on return home from the American Coal beef by Louis Foyt (2nd from left), MCS assistant secretary. Con­ gratulated for their fine work were Hebberto Hermosilla, George "Scotty" McCormack and John Costa, who came East for the beef. American Coal Shipping now has only one vessel operating, hauling grain to Yugoslavia. Five are back in the boneyard and another is due to go. (Story on Page 5.) Seafarers Earl ftome Again, smith, electrician (below, left) and J. Otreba, wiper, catch up on news of Robin beef as Robin Locksley arrives back in New York. The Locksley is one of four Robin ships on which the NLRB has already certified SIU bargain­ ing rights. Certification on three others is still pending, awaiting outcome of NMU court action. (Story on Page 3.) 4 Si , .-"iiI In This Issue: SKI Benefits Extended For Disabled Children —Story On Page 2 Survey Launched On US Atom Tcmker By 1961 Runaway Go's Want Out On New US Construction World Maritime Confab May Junk 3-Mile limit —Story On Page 5 —Story On Page 16 —Story On Page 8 •N ... • ji . r s; • ^ i f \ •• Absentee Ballots vFor '58 Elections Available! Siurvey Lists State Rules For Merchant Seamen —Story On Page 10 iii. PHOTO-FEATURE: % SIU —Story On Page 9 j.:: :;:-y: •: ' i ,^;r( �S EA FA H ERS Vlt« T-W» r' -^: Engineers Okay Merger Program By Wide Mar^n 1- -Tf, •f"'' h Frances Shows Off Her Heavy Lift Child Aid NEW YORK — Trustees of the SIU Welfare Plan have announced an extension In hospital and sur­ gical coverage for Seafarers' ctUldren. Under the extension, if a Sea­ farer's child, under the age of 19 years old, becomes totally disabled, his hospital and surgical coverage will continue in force throughout the disability. Prior to this, dependent children wece covered up to their 19th birthday at which time benefits ceased. But now they will be cov­ ered for as long as they are dis­ abled and dependent. The program assures coverage for hosptal board, hosptal "extras," surgery, doctors' visits in the hos­ ptal and blood transfuson under the SIU Welfare Plan. Another NMU [Injun' Bites Dust — Vfho Bouneed MrDougall ? Vote Boycott Of Wreck Law' States t SEAFARERS LOG iSi "V p-''• ••' '7 • .V.V.:r,' SIU Plan Broadens Representatives of the Brotherhood of Marine Engineers and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association will n^eet In Chicago on May 24 to further their merger program follow­ ing the results of membership^' refierendums in the two xm- the Maritime Trades Department, ions. Secret ballot voting in AFL-CIO. The Chicago meeting will in­ the BME and MEBA resulted in overwhelming approval for merger clude planning for forthcoming con­ of the two organizations. The tract negotiations and are expected MEBA membership also voted to result in a unified bargaining heavily to approve affiliation with program. The vote results also pro­ vided for BME affiliaUon with the MEBA as an autonomous union and for BME representation on tlie MEBA'i National Executive Coun­ cil and national subcommittee. For the time being, the BME will re­ tain its ties with the Seafarers In­ Longshoremen gently ease heavy deck cargo onto waiting dockternational Union of North Amer­ side truck in San Juan. Hi-Lo (left) helps steady the load. ica pending a full and complete merger. , In the two union referendums. the BME members went by better than five to one for merger and ap­ proved a new constitution by a MOBILE — A "mild shipping lopsided 13 to one margin. MEBA hoom" is predicted for this port members, with more than 4,000 within the next few weeks with voting, went to one in favor The SEAFARERS LOG cartoon entitled "Ten Little Injuns" which appeared in Febru­ the Wild Ranger, Hurricane and of the merger plan and better than Beauregard (Waterman) coming three to one for affiliation with ary 28, 1958, issue has turned out to be on accurate estimate of NMU afftdrs. Still another "Injun" has bit the dust in the National Maritime Union, this time Secretary-Treasurer out of the yards and taking on full the MI'D. crews. Ten other vessels are ex­ The tentative merger agreement McDougall, and the questionspected in port during the period. upon which the members voted exercising maritime circles is better Job than the secretary, but NMU and had been vigorously de­ The Beauregard is the sixth calls for final, merger to be com­ "who wanted McDougall's mainly because he does not like fended by Curran while imder pre­ vious opposition fire. All was well Waterman vessel to complete con­ pleted by January 1> "1960, the scalp, and why?" the secretary-treasurer. . . . version Into a trailership in the terms to be subject to another McDougall's "withdrawal" from "That kind of a campaign on the with Stone until he took issue with Mobile yards. She is scheduled to secret ballot ratification vote. In the coming election came just two part of a vice-president certainly the position of NMU attorney Herjoin the Bienville around March the interim, the two unions are to years after NMU President Joseph' would not be in the best interests naan Cooper on what should ba done about the legal challenge to 18 in extending Waterman's "sea- work out joint contract negotia­ Curran and others decided that of the imlon ..." land" trailership service to Puerto tions, a joint organizing program, NMU Treasurer Hedley Stone had The point of view expressed in the hiring halL provide for reciprocity in shipping "had it." McDougall was selected some newspaper reports that Mc­ The scuttlebutt hap it that Stono Rico. on each other's vessels and seek and backed by Curran and others Dougall was voluntarily going back came into the office one day and Four other former C-2s are pres­ improvements alignment in of the NMU inner circle at the time to sea. to better prepare for future found that the NMU policy on the ently servicing New York, Wilm­ their pension and and welfare pro­ to give Stone the bo^ce. < responsibilities in -the NMU, b hiring hall had been reversed in ington, Mi^i, Tampa, Houston grams. Just two months ago, in the not shared in all maritime circles. his absence without consulting him and New Orleans with Waterman's BME president Ray McKay "Pilot" of January 16, Curran de­ Those who have been following and that NMU halls and registra­ new service. ^ These are the Gate­ way City, Azalea City, Fairland and hailed the vote results as assuring fended McDougall against attacks NMU political infighting pointed tion lists were to be opened to Lll rank and file support for the ob­ launched by Joseph Dunn, vice- to the case of Hedley Stone, just comers without prior approval by Raphael Semmes. Port Agent Cal Tanner reported jectives of the merger program. president. This is the way hs han­ two years before as evidence that the NMU membership. When ho that alterations and renovations The BME had conducted a vigor­ dled it: "One rumor has it that another influence was making it­ protested, he got the ax from Cur­ throughout the hall here are just ous campaign among its member­ there Ls division in the National self felt in McDougall's decision to ran. about complete. A new dispatcher's ship in favor of the program, point­ Office and, as a result, one vice- "withdraw." in the subsequent election cam­ They pointed out that Stone had paign, fought over the position to board and other facilities designed ing out that it offered greater bar­ president will run against the sec­ to speed-up the handling of mem­ gaining strength, possibilities of retary-treasurer, apparently not been in high favor with Curran be taken on the hiring hall, Mr.. bership pffairs have been installed. more economic gains and improved because he believes he can do a and other policy makers in the Cooper openly campaigned for The new hiring; board measures job security for members of both Curran's stand, against Stone's, be­ eight-feet by six-feet aiid has a unions. National MEBA officers fore the 1,000-man crew of the SS black velvet background. Yellow also had pressed hard for approval. United States. Mr. Cooper's posi­ ttf/f UTTtE /NJOMS...<r, The B^ voting had started plastic numbers clearly visible tion was faithfully reported in the from the back of the hall are December 1 and ended January 31 "Pilot" of July 5, 1956 under the .ons. used to show the Jobs. The entire but the ballot count' was held up headline "Cooper Tells 'Big U' board is trimmed in chrome and for the conclusion of the MEBA Curran Action Saved NMU Hiring adds to the appearance of the hall. vote, which ended on March 2. Hall." The meeting in question took Shipping in the port forJthe last place In May, 1950, during the ..^td couple of weeks was good with NMU voting period. over 130 men shipped to regular In the course of the election, the jobs, and another 100 to various Curran opposition, campaigning on relief jobs in and around the port. the hiring hall dispute, said that The~following ships hit the port the issue was "Copper Rule or during the past period, the Alcoa Membership Rule" in the NMU. Pioneer, Alcoa partner, Alcoa Po­ Those who cite the purge of laris, Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa Cor­ Stone as an example of the type PHILADELPHIA—The execu­ sair (Alcoa); the Hastings, Wild of influence existing in NMU top Ranger, Claiborne, Wacosta and tive board of the Glass Bottle Blow­ circles believe that similar influ­ Monarch of the Sea (Waterman). ers Association, AFL-CIO, has ences are very likely responsible All were in good shape with no voted to boycott "right to work" for McDougall's sudden "with­ states when it comes to selecting major beefs reported. drawal." The people who "per­ union convention sites. suaded" him to leave undoubtedly The union board voted the reso­ have provided him with a prepared lution in discussion of possible lo­ statement to smooth over the rift. it is also pointed out that the TV Mor. 14, 1958 Vol. XX, No. 6 cations for the union's next inter­ national convention. It was ten­ iiiere sf • iNJIU secretary-treasurer is the tatively voted to hold it in Cali­ second ranking full-time officer of fornia—provided voters in that the NMU, and is in a strong posi­ state disapprove of a proposed tion to influence policy and advance "right to work" law. his personal political career. In •iher&viT&P&'-i . • PAOT HALL, Secretaty-Treaaurer The resolution would tend to view of Curran's well-known sus­ HERBEBI BBAND. Bdttor. BEBNABD SBA- rule out Miami Beach, a favorite picions of other NMU officials, ae KAR. Art Editor. BBaJHAii ABTBUI, IBWM evidenced by the repeated purgeg SPIVACK, AL BtASXin. JOBM BRAZIL, Stag convention city, since Florida is Wrtters. Btu. lloosr. Gulf Area Repredown through the years, someone one of the 18 states which has a tentative. Joe is not always the road to suc­ charges against Lawrenson which "right to work" law on the books. may have found it easy to exer­ resulted in his expulsion from the cess. (Vfifl 1* lippn thrAtiwh Published biweekly at the headquarters cise influence iOn Curran to dispose Copies of the resolution have 'el the aseiaioft liiternallonal Union, At of McDougall as a possible future lantie A Gulf District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth been sent to all the chambers of EEEEEEEEE SEAFARERS LOG • Feb. 28. 1958 Avenue Brooklyn 33, NY: Tel. HYaclnth commerce and convention bureaus The big question then in the 9-6603. Entered as second class matter NMU today is, are the influences at the Post Otrica In Brooklyn, NY. under in the 18 states involved and in LOG cartoon appearing February 28 turned out to be jrophetic MM Act of Aus-M'1'1>responsible for McDougall's sudden other areas where business groups when NMU Secretory-Treasurer John McDougall's "wirifidrawa!" "withdravyai'^l^, the same^-as. tbose have been campaigning for such who gave'^tbne the boot?" ' legislation.was announced'qiM^eklJioiteff'^v'irfh 'Mild Boom' In Prospect For MoUle 4:;., Much 14, l«tt> L OG la \i �lUirBi i^ ltn SEAFAtiERS LOG Taf Tbre* Runaways Hungry For Gov't Cargo; Seek US Registry WASHINGTON—^Long a mainstay of the US merchant marine and of US seamen's jobs, the "50-50" law may now be accomplishing what seamen's unions have long sought unsucI 4. * SI a 1.2 J.^ A • cessfully—the return of Liberian-flag ships to the American flag. The fost break in the run--f away trend came when the the reason being the higher cargo flag rate was $13.85 a ton. Both Pegor Steamship Company, a rates offered under American-flag ships were tankers which have tramp operator, asked and re­ operation because of the "50-50" switched to the grain trade because of lack of oil cargoes. ceived permission from the law. On the same day, a US ship Maritime Administration to The cause of the reverse trans­ return the Liberty ship Pegor to fer is the fall of the tramp ship­ got a grain charter to Turkey at American-flag operation, where it ping charter market under the for­ $17.48 a ton while a foreign ship is now being manned by a crew of eign flag in both the coal and grain settled for $6.20. This was also out American seamen. A second ap­ business with the basic charter rate of the Gulf. The SIU and other maritime un­ plication is pending from the P^nu to Northwest Europe down around Seafarer George CKea, AB, starts to unpock geor in Robin Lock< $3 to $3.85 a ton. The tramps claim ions have fought vigorously over Trader and others are expected. sley foc'sle after shipping as replacement for Seafarer who helped Pegor was the first of what is re- they need a minimum of $4.70 a the years to defend the "50-50" SlU hold Robin Line fleet against NMU raid. Locksley was one portediy a number of applicants ton even while running foreign. law against repeated attempts by of four ships certified to SlU. Court suit is holding up certification for return to the American-flag, In fact, Greek and Liberian-fiag foreign nations, the State Depart­ shipowners have been talking about ment and some domestic farm in­ on three others. establishing minimum cargo rates terests to modify or repeal it. The and refusing to rent their ships unions and the American-flag for less than an agreed-upon fig­ steamship industry have argued ure. that "50-50" met part of the ob­ By contrast, rates in the semi- jectives of the 1936 Merchant Ma­ protected US-flag trades, involv­ rine Act which aimed for a fleet ing carriage of Government agri­ capable of carrying 50 percent of cultural surplus and foreign aid US overseas trade. "50-50" of cargoes, are running up to 2V^ course, covers only that segment Acting to protect the Union's interest in the Robin Line fleet, the SIU has filed a motion times the foreign-flag rate. This of foreign trade which consists of in Federal District Court seeking permission to intervene in the National Maritime Union's enables the tramps to make a prof­ US Government-owned or Gov­ ernment-financed cargoes. suit against the National Labor Relations Board. The suit is aimed at preventing the Board it under the US flag. The action of the Maritime Ad­ However, the current impact of from certifying the SIU as col­ lective bargaining agent on lowed the lop-sided defeat the the National Board that it certify ministration in approving the re­ "50-50" in securing the return of of the Pegor drew a sharp Liberian-fiag ships was totally un­ Robin Line Ships. It fol- NMU suffered in seeking to raid the SIU on the three remaining turn protest from the SlU-contracted expected, although in the past the shipf. SfU Jobs in the fleet. The SIU argues for SIU's certi­ Meanwhile, Seafarers have been Buil Steamship Company. In a let­ law has undoubtedly contributed fication on all seven Robin Line shipping to the four certified ships', ter the Maritime Administration, to the retention of some tramp vessels, four of which have already the Robin Sherwood, Robin Gray, Buli complained that it had Lib- shipping under the American flag. been certified by the Board, and Robin Kirk and Robin Locksley. ertys in lay-up available for "SOrecommends dismissal of the The Gray and Locksley called at SO" charters. "We urge that the NMU's suit which has delayed cer­ New York and other East Coast Board," the company letter said, tification on the three remaining ports and took heavy loads of re­ "use its power ... to prevent for­ ships. A hearing was held on Tues­ placements as Seafarers who had eign ships from coming in under WASHINGTON — The Pacific day, March 11, at which the SIU been riding these ships for a the US flag to compete with own­ District-contracted American Presi­ presented its motion. year to hold the fleet, got off for ers of US flag vessels . ." The Maritime Administration dent Lines has signed a contract The case is being heard by Fed­ well-deserve^ vacations. claims that in many instances such for the construction of two "Sea- eral District Judge Sidney SugarSeafarers Get Overtime registry transfers to the American racer" vessels. The ships will be man who had previously dismissed of a modified Mariner type. The the NMU's suit to bar certification Crewmembers on the Gray also flag can be completed without MA company already operates eight of the SIU. Sugarman reinstated got a well-deserved present when permission. Mariners in its Pacific and round- the suit following the NLRB'i re­ SIU patrolmen servicing the vessel In Again, Out Again collected some 245 hours overtime, the-world runs. quest for a more definitive ruling. most of it for working while on Of course, should a large num­ WASHINGTON — Isthmian The contract waS" signed with the He stated that the basis for his wheel watch and other items not ber of tratnps come back under the Steamship Company's request for a subsidy on several of its routes Bethlehem Pacific Coast shipbuild­ original ruling had been erroneous. overtime under the American flag, they might have has turned into a knock-down draging division in San Francisco with The NMU had filed its petition considered difficulty getting cargo at any rate NMU agreement. each ship to cost nearly $15 mil­ in court early in January to bar Squads of NMU officials are still and it is presumed they would then out fight with two already-subsi­ dized operators, the SIU's Wash­ lion. ^ certification of the SIU. The NMU visiting the ships certified to the seek to transfer out again. ington Ofiice reports. American had also filed charges of "intimida­ Completion of the construction SIU in order to pressure NMU men Recent reports in the "Journal President Lines and American Ex­ contracts came after an odd inci­ tion" at the Labor Board is its last to stay aboardr Despite their pleas, of Commerce," leading shipping port Lines have been opposing the dent involving the Puget Sound ditch efforts to upset the SIU's three NMU men on the Gray trade newspaper, emphasize the Isthmian application so vigorously Bridge and Dredging Company of clear-cut victory in the fleet. packed their gear and got off, say­ disparity between US and foreign that the president of the SlU-conSeattle. The Seattle yard was low •Charges Not VaUd' ing that they were disgusted with rates. On March 4th there were tracted company, A. E. King, served two charter transactions to carry notice he would claim undue preju­ bidder on the AFL vessels, but •The New York regional director the whole business. then withdrew its bid. As a result, of the Labor Board ruled out the Ships still to be certified are the grain from the US Gulf to Greece. dice if the Board decided against the yard was penalized $500,000, objections raised by the NMU as Robin Hood, Robin Trent and The foreign-flag charter was at the him but granted increased sailings rate of $5.75 a ton, the American- to the two other companies on the with the penalty divided between "not valid" and reconunended to Robin Goodfellow. APL and the Govefnment. The same routes. new awards are about $300,000 While Isthmian has been seek­ higher than the Puget Sound bid.. ing subsidies on its Persian Gulf, The "Searacers" will be the first Far East and around-the-world Mariner-type ^ vessels to be built services, APL has put in applica­ specifically to the order of a pri­ tion for additional sailings in the vate shipping operator from the Red Sea area. Isthmian has pro­ hull up. tested the APL application, with King declaring that APL would' need "spoons" to get the available Veeps Goy Too cargo aboard because it is so lim­ After laying oflE 9,000 produc­ ited. An Isthmian subsidy in the tion workers since last Septem­ Persian Gulf trade, he said, would ber out of a. total of 20,000, the not leave room for any other Curtiss-Wright plant in ^oodcompany because Isthmian would ridge, New Jersey, has gotten be able to carry more than 50 per­ around to some of the company cent of all cargo offerings. brass. Three vice - presidents In other areas where Isthmian suddenly decided to "resign" is seeking subsidy, US ships are simultaneously. A considerably carrying 29 percent of total US larger number of company su­ round-the-world cargoes and only pervisors below that level have 17 percent of cargoes on the south­ also gotten the ax. Like many ern Far East to Atlantic Coast run. aviation firms, the company has Isthmian is using these figures to been hit by the switch from air­ justify its subsidy bid in these craft to missiles, and also by areas so as to increase US-flag parBatch of jobs on Robin Gray it bio! for by mon on tho boach in hoadquarfort. Cortificatlon of ship the general decline in business. ticipatioii; : ' cloarod way for shipping jojN through BlU again. . SlU Seeks To intervene in NMU Robin Line Suit APL Signs For 2 New Cargo SItips Isthmian In Knock-Down FMB Fight •-! "^1 M\ m �EBSOWKwrrfffw^"- '-7, 7 "\r^: ]^e Four SEAFA HERS LOG lOanih 14, SC/A, First Sea Union, Now 73 m 8"" ; i/-v;:- if-?!K • This is ani\iversary month in the American seamen's union movement with the-Sailors Union of the Pacific, the first of all maritime unions, celebrating its 73rd birthday on Thurs­ day, March 6. In addition,"*" area were the passage of the MaWednesday, March 12th, ^uire and White Acts. The first marked the 104th anniversary permitted a coasting ship sailor to of the birth of Andrew Furuseth, whose name is closely linked with the early successes of the SUP. Folsoni Street wharf in San Francisco was the birthplace of the union in 1885 when over 200 sailor men, indignant at a proposed wage cut in the coasting trade, formed the organization called the Coast Seamen's Union. A little over a year later, another group of sailors formed the Steam- I •.•Ji.: ^<: I.: 4' .4r-,: • .•;:K"' •' Andrew Furuseth Ife' S WCvf.v. 1^; ife'^' ^iyj ;. I •, p -*' V my' m' tefe- •yZ.-, V J,P:7 ..i.-Sl', ship Sailor's Protective Union. The two groups merged in July, 1891, adopting the name Sailors Union of the Pacific. Native Of Norway Furuseth, who was a native of Norway, had come to California in 1886 in thejhope that he would be able to do something to improve conditions of worid seamen through the United States. He quickly became the spokesman for the Coast Seamen's Union and later for the Sailors Union follow­ ing the merger, in the fight to end the virtual peonage under which seamen worked. -He represented American seamen until his death in 1938. Early legislative successes in this pay off at any time in the course of a voyage. This, in effect, gave sailors the right to strike a ship to improve conditions. It also pro­ hibited allotments to crimp houses out of seamen's wages. The White Act extended the Maguire Act provisions to offshore UC ships. It prohibited the flogging of seamen which was ail too com­ monplace then, and allowed draws against wages at any port of call. The next major step did not come until 1915 when, with the assistance of Senator R(^bert LaFollette Sr., Furuseth and the union won passage of the 1915 Sea­ men's Act, freeing merchant sea­ men jm foreign ships in US ports from the desertion rule. This per­ mitted them to pay off in the States, and its sponsors hoped it would have the effect of boosting foreign Wages on ships touching US ports closer to US levels. Seamen's Act The Seamen's Act also spelled out many protective features for seafaring men which still exist, in­ cluding minimum foc'sle space, safety provisions, minimum feed­ ing and storing and other regula­ tions. However, much of the effec­ tiveness of the Seamen's Act inso­ far as foreign ships are con­ cerned has been nullified J)y the strict regulations of the McCarran Act and other laws governing alien seamen in the US. Meanwhile, on • the economic front, the Sailors Union fought a number of notable strike battles. The SUP served as the focus for the formation of the first country­ wide Seaman's union, the Interna­ tional Seamen's Union. When the ISU disintegrated following the collapse of the 1921 strike, the Sailor's Union kept maritime union­ ism alive and sparked its revival on all coasts with the successful strikes of 1934 and 1936. These successes laid the foundation for the maritime hiring halls of today, plus the superior wages, conditions and welfare benefits enjoyed by to­ day's seamen on all coasts. New York Finds Shinnng Holding Up, Men Choosy NEW YORK—Shipping in this port continued to be very good during the past period for class A men. Several jobs, including replacements for the Robin Gray, stayed on the board for several calls before"*^ vannah; Elizabeth, Beatrice, Fran­ finding takers. ces, Kathryn, (Bull); Steel Sci­ Bill Hall, assistant secre­ entist, Steel Flyer (Isthmian); Mor­ tary-treasurer, reminded the mem­ bership that Seafarers should take all jobs as they are put on the board. Headquarters is still awaiting word on the certification of the Hobin Hood, Robin Trent and the Robin Goodfellow. During the past two weeks there were 22 ships paying off in the area, four signing on and 15 in transit. The Beatrice (Bull Line) went into idle status for a few days and came out again this week. The ships paying off were the Alcoa Runner, Puritan, Roamer, Pegasus/Alcpa); Seatrain's Georgia, New Texjai,' £pui«lai»a,'Sii ning'Light, Antinous (Waterman); Fairland, Gateway City, Coalinga Hills (Pan-Atlantic); Michael (Carras), and the Robin Gray (Robin). Signing on were the Steel Sci­ entist, Steel Flyer (Isthmian); Fairlwd (Pan-Atlantic), and the Alcoa Roamer (Alcoa). La-transit vessels were the Alcoa Pilgrim, Pegasus, Runner (Alcoa); Steel Scientist, Steel Flyer^ Steel Seafarer (Isthmian); Kenmar, Pennmar (Calmar); Warrior, Hastings (Waterman); CS Baltimore, Fort Hoskins (Cities Service); Bienville (Pan-Atlantic); Michael (Carras) and the Seatrain New Jersey (Sea* trainL •t):' s Z''HZZ-ZS!C:.Z'-Z.V ; yZfilieiUiyiIt's herd to understand why there should be ony delay 4m any ship in Insulating exposed steam lines. The remedy It simple enough — just wrap some turns of lagging oround the line ond nobody can get hurt. Still occoslonol reporti will come In about crewmembers getting scorched by a hot line thoT wasn't protected. The motto on every ship should be "Don't log with the lagging." Keep those hot lines properly insulated, and one more Occident won't happen. . \ An SlU 5 Safe i m- wmm P* ,1,.^ I ' "/i' V: �SEAFARERS Mmreh 14. l»St Right To What? QUESTION: Whof k your Idoa of an idoal shipboard pet? R. Melvil, cook: The best ship­ Zenon R. Rivera^ AB: 1 think a dog is the best kind of pet to have board pets, are parrots. You can talk to them and aboard a ship. spend many They are very hours in training friendly and usu­ them to speak ally take to the and answer you. whole crew. It is a sensible They help pass bird to have on a the time in train­ ship for it is ing and playing clean and intelli­ with them. We gent. The only had one While I pets I do not like was shipping on the Rosario, but she gave us some to see on ships are cats. They are — trouble. She had 12 pups during too dirty. the trip. S. t. tJulin LellBski. steward: In my t t t Harry Monalian, AB: A dog opinion we should not allow any would be the best kind of pet for pets on board a ship. I think fora ship. They are one thing that very pleasant they are too animals and the dirty and also crew usually gets that it is an in­ a kick out of tak­ justice to confine ing' care of them them.to a vesseL and training Take a dog; they them. I like pets are used to run­ on a ship, in fapt ning in fields and when 1 was on digging in the ground, but on ship the Sandcaptain we had a regular menagerie ot they are out of their environment. parrots, parakeets, dogs' and what­ t not. Charles Farranto. OS: Either a - t t 4> small dog or a small monkey. 1 Catailno Ramos, steward: I think that the dog Would be would prefer either a dog or a more easily parrot for both trained and will are easily trained stay in one place and a lot of fun. once broken, but But if anyone is I would prefer a interested, I hap­ monkey. I would pen to have a like to pick up number of kit­ one of those tens in my home small South now and would give one to any American monkeys for a pet, but Seafarer who they cost too much right now so I'll have to wait. wants one for a pet. Page Fire- LOG "San Francisco Labor," pub­ lication of the San Francisco Central Labor Council, reports an example of what "right to work" laws mean in practice. In 1951, grocery clerks in Reno, Nevada, were getting a $68.30 weekly scale. Those in San Francisco were paid $70. The following year, Nevada adopted a "right to work" law. "Today," the newspaper reports, the Reno clerk is $13.14 a week be­ hind the San Francisco clerk, instead of 70 cents. "And he has no welfare plan and no pen­ sion." Another Two Coal Ships Boneyardedy Recall Of 3rd Due BALTIMORE—Refurbished with a new prop after spending 17 days under tow, American Coal Shipping's Coal Miner sailed out of here last week, again carrying a cargo of grain, this time to Yugoslavia. Meanwhile, the Maritime Glucksman. That leaves the com­ Administration announced pany with one Government-owned that the company has redelivered ship, the Thomas Paine, which has two more of its Government-char­ bedn idle since the end of Janu­ tered Libertys to the lay-up fleet, ary and the one ship it owns, the the Martha Berry and the Harry Coal Miner, which has been carry­ ing grain since last spring. No Company Opposition It is expected that the Paine will either be recalled by the Fed­ eral Maritime Board as part of its monthly review of outstanding ship charters, or redelivered by the company in anticipation of the re­ call. The company has not opposed Firm "assurances" that the Onassis and Niarchos interests any of the Federal Maritime were going ahead with construction of two 105,500-tonners Board's previous decisions to recall and several smaller tankers for US-flag operation are now its ships. At one time, American Coal was melting away. talking about chartering 80 Gov­ Maritime Administrator ment settlement that had been ernment-owned ships. That was worked out-with Onassis over the Clarence G. Morse is already when the freight market for carry­ reported to be weighing a decision ownership of Victory Carriers Inc. ing coal to Europe was up as high and other Onassis-owned opera­ on whether to permit "postpone­ as $16 a ton. With the market ment" of the construction. Repre­ tions.' Technically speaking, Onas­ down to little more than $3 a ton sentatives of the two shipping sis does not "own" Victory Car­ on the same run, the company has groups, including Onassis himself, riers since a trust had been set up lost interest in operating any coal have already discussed the chances in the name of his minor children carriers for the time being. for a delay with the administra­ who are US citizens. Lost Prop Actually the fact that Onassis tor. '' The Coal Miner had lost its prop met with the Maritime Administra­ The fall in tanker rates is said 360 miles off Bermuda, following tor is a good indication of where to be the chief reason for the move. which it spent 17 days adrift and This is coupled with Government the controls lie. Chances are that a postpone­ under tow before being pulled into restrictions on US oil imports, largely from the Persian Gulf, ment would ultimately lead to the Baltimore. The towline broke on which is the only trade that could abandonment of the construction two separate occasions because of really be profitable for the giant program, in which case the Gov­ heavy swells and force nine to ten ernment would net a $15 million winds. oil carriers. "penalty" for non-performance of Actually, American Coal Ship­ The Onassis proposal is expected ping was in the coal-carrying busi­ to draw heavy fire from members the original contracts. Since part of the construction ness only about six months. It of Congress who were critical of the construction arrangements in deal, in the case of Onassis, was started full-scale operations at the the first instance and of a Govern- permission to transfer 12 tankers end of March, but began laying up and two Libertys to runaway reg­ ships at the end of September. In istry, his $8 million share of the the interim, the Coal Miner had "penalty" would not come too high. been switched from the coal to the It would come down to an average grain trade, and the Martha Berry of $570,000 per ship, most of which had made one voyage on the South was probably made up during the SAN FRANCISCO—A demand for motorized lifeboats and, for supplementary liferafts Suez emergency when rates sky­ American ore run. The coal tonnage moved by the was made by the crew jof the President Adams following the tragic loss of the Italian-flag rocketed. company in that six-month period ship Bonitas with 22 of her crew. The Adams' crew request follows formal action by the All of the Onassis ships, former­ was a minute amount in propor­ ly manned by Seafarers, were un­ tion to total US coal exports car­ Sailors Union of the Paciflc der foreign registry well before the ried out of Norfolk on other ves­ last December requesting mo­ that all lifeboats he equipped with the black gang were fine sailors. Suez crisis in November, 1956. Most sels of US companies. strong battery-powered search­ "None of us shall ever forget the torized lifeboats for all US lights, and that ships should have effort put into this operation by of them, in fact, quietly transferred •hips. The SUP lifeboat resolution was nets to hang over the side during chief officer Charles Shay. He dis­ even before the Government for­ regarded his own safety several mally approved the complex trans­ passed after 90 lives were lost in rescue operations. fer and construction package. • collision between the SIU Pa- "We on the Adams feel very times... Earlier, this past January, it was "The ship's crew and passengers badly for not being able to have cifie District's Monnacsurf and an Argentine river steamer last Au­ saved more lives, but our entire donated $225 to each of the three disclosed that plans of the Onassis gust 17 near Buews Aires. At that effortl were put into the rescue survivors we had aboard. They group to build a 105-000-ton super­ time the crew maintained that operation. No one sleid for two were put on a plane in Panama and tanker for foreign operation had already been put aside, along with many more lives could have been days. The steward department and sent to the East Coast." about 350,000 tons of other con­ saved if they had a motorboat. struction planned by other opera­ Deck gang crewmembers of the tors. A campaign to organize the Cities President Adams said they might Service tanker fleet has been an­ have been able to save many more nounced by the SlU-affiliated of the Bonitas crew (only five were Brotherhood of Marine Engineers. rescued in all, three of them by The BME Executive Board said it the Adams) if a motor lifeboat was had completed preparations for the available, because of the heavy campaign, and would assign organ­ seas involved. . izers to the field shortly. Liferafts Needed. Toe SEATTLE—Although the past The announcement followed a The crew also pointed out that period was slow oh the shipping survey indicating an if they had liferafts. they could side, Jeff Gillette, port agent, re­ pre-organizing interest •by''^ Cities Service engin­ have thrown them over the side ported, the outlook is good for the eers in BME affiliation. BME Pres­ and possibly saved lome-of the men on the beach. ident Ray McKay reported that crewmembers of the Italian ship One vessel, the Transatlantic Cities Service engineers are "look­ who were thrown into the ocean (Pacific Water.) is expected out of ing for the kind of effective rep­ when their lifeboat was smashed lay-up to carry lumber to the East resentation contract provisions against the Adams. They were at­ Coast and then foreign and will the BME is and 7MB fOOO VaiCeSATatKOi/ilM providing for hundreds tempting to get hold of a line need a full crew. In addition there of other engineers. We intend to from the rescue ship at the time. are three expected payoffs reported so far. They are the Rebecca (In­ give them the opportunity to have During the rescue operation, the tercontinental), Fairport (Water­ a genuine union looking after their wind was blowing at 40 miles an man) and the Grain Trader (Grain interests." hour with heavy snow and fog. The Cities Service operates 12 tank­ Fleet). Adams then launched its own boat ers and supertankers, principally There were no ships signing on and picked up on^ ihan, while t<vo or paying off during the past two in the coast-wise and nearby for­ others were rescued by lines weeks. The-in-transit vessels were eign trades. Engineers are mem­ thrown from the stem. the Choctaw, City of Alma and bers of the Deepwater Officers As­ ' In addition to the call for" motorLaSalle (Waterman) and the Mass- sociation. (Independent). boats and lifeboats, the Adams mar, Marymsr and the Lcsmar The SIU has held contracts for gsn^ . suggested that lifejackets fCalmar). All,were Reported in good should be equipped, with lights shape." as they were during World War II; •-'sM Onassis Would Duck Out On US-Flag Supertanker SUP Crew Stresses Motorboat Need BME Plans CS Tanker Organizing Seattle Sees Better Days Si ./• J "Fit&r a Seafarer! l/ilAeAE/.r VMS i �S EAPARERS nc« HK LOG Bi^h 14, I9t» US Lines; The 'Hungry Fleet' i>^-' The US Lines Company is distinctive in the US merchant marine for the size of its fleet, 58 vessels, and the fact that it operates two of the nation's largest passenger ships. To seamen, the company's ships have two other distinctions. One is the fact that the US Lines was the ^ father o the blacklist system* which has now extended to other contracted fleets of the • Uv^. m. I ?.••• ': h.:- I J:r' iH'" ! kC ! 'K''::'- Wi; •v ^?' • 'k-. • i;': ijV- I''- • ^-"'A-"' F'-' ' . National Maritime Union; the sec­ ond is that US Lines is one of the cheapest, If not the cheapest feeder of any US-flag cargo liner service. in fact, on an over-all basis, the difference between US Lines' feeding and the industry average is conservatively estimated at 30 cents per man per day. That doesn't sound like a lot all by its lonesome, but added up on a year­ long basis throughout the fleet, it represents a minimum "subsidy" to the company of $290,000 a year. Compare it to the feeding costs of crews. Privately-owned merchant the better feeders in the US mer­ ships of other operators generally chant marine, including other feed around $1.60 to $1.65 average NAlU-contracted companies and with some going up to $1.80 or even some non-union oil companies, bettec and practically all putting and the differential is as high as out at least $1.55 daily as a bare minimum. $450,000 annually. There are many instances of Cheaper Than Coast Guard In fact, not only does US Lines ships -going to o:- over the $2 mark feed under other merchant ships, but these are not representative it also feeds under Coast Guard and usually 'nvolved smaller com­ vessels with comparable crew num­ panies which virtually did their bers and even under some Navy purchasing on a retail level, or vessels. On the whole, it doesn't else outfits whose practices are lax have much of an edge on mass and who do not maintain proper feeding costs in the Army and the supervision over their steward de­ Navy, even though the latter organ­ partment operations. 'We Are Hungry' ' izations get cheaper prices through The issue of US Lines feeding huge purchases and their own warehousing. Anybody who has has been a sore point for years, been in ser\'ice knows what the but somehow, nothing has been feeding is like there; nutritious but done about it. There have' been not much more. repeated complaints in the NMU Here are some simple statistics: "pilot" on the subject. A typickl Last summer US Lines sent a one appeared in the "Pilot" of memorandum to all its freight ship October 10, 1957, signed by four stewards on feeding costs which US Lines crews. said bluntly: "We expect the fleet "Due to high food costs" average to be below $1.30 [per man they wrote, "something should per day=-ed:] for the second half be done about the present sit­ of the year. Milk in port is to be uation of feeding on NMU served for breakfast and supper contract vessels . . . never has only." there been a set minimum The memorandum also cited as food cost ... ". . . We have received wage praiseworthy the chief steward of one US Lines freighter who "has increases .. . but the food cost an average of $1,227 per meal has not risen ... "In short, we are hungry." day" as the kind of goal to shoot One of these vessels sent a for­ for. By comparison, the Coast Guard mal resolution to the NMU con­ mess on ships carrying between 35 vention declaring ". . . the food and 45 men gets an allowance of costs on our contract vessels have $1.33 a dayi Navy submarines are stayed the same for the past six allowed $1.31 a day and the gen­ years . . . We therefore resolve eral average for mass Army and that a food nlan be brought into Navy messes is $1.10 daily. The out contract, also a minimum food armed services, of course, buy in cost of $2 per man per day . . ." carload lots, have their own ware­ The resolution was dated Sep­ houses and their own personnel tember 19, just a month after US for handling stores. Commercial Lines notified its stewards to get shipowners pay more for compar­ down under $1.30. There was no able ^imounts of food because they affirmative action by the conven­ buy in smaller quantities and have tion on this or any other resolution to pay handling costs as part of to improve feeding. On December 5, the "Pilot" pub­ their feeding bills. lished beef ^on feeding Bad as US Lines looks in com­ from a another US Lines ship, which laid parison with these figures, 'it cuts the issue on the line. a poor figure indeed when com­ "Our current Westbound pared to ships manned by civilian meeting," it reads, "was very muchL to the point and the question of poor feeding aboard all US Lines freighters was discussed by the member­ ship at length. "As the minutes of this meeting make clear, we think all US Lines vessels should be removed from the Good Feed­ er list in the 'Pilot' and that strenuous effdrts should be made by the National Office to have the feeding costs and poundage upped considerably. "Since the termination of the war, prices have Increased constantly. Despite these in­ disputable facts, at the begin­ ning of January, 1956, the US Lines, Instead of Increasing feeding costs on their vessels, decided to lower them from $1.46 per day per man to $1.35 ; im. rnnmi HiwM " YOUR DOUAR'S WORTH Seafarer's Gnide To Better Buying By Sidney MargoUiu More On Income Taxes the poundage pdr man eonsumed from 7.5 to 6.5 pounds. [Ed. note: If a man drank a pint of milk and had a halfpint of soup, that would be better than' IVi pounds right there.l , "More recently still a letter was sent out to all chief stew­ ards telling them how one chief steward fed four trips running at $1,227 and that the company expected the fleet average for the last half of the year to be down to $1.30 per day or better ... "The ultimate result Is that the whole of the crew from the top down Is being poorly fed . . . not In line -with our American way of living .. . "We feel certain thatjve are voicing the opinion of the crews of all US Lines freigh­ ters who desire to live and work in accordance with nor­ mal American standards . . ." Just why the NMU permits US Lines to enjoy a $290,000 a year, or larger, edge on feeding while its membership grumbles is one of those as-yet-unanswered questions. It should be pointed out in this connection that the company has a whole slew of top brass, the largest number of vice-presidents of any American-flag operation, in propor­ tion to size. The money coming out of the bellies of the NMU member­ ship can be used to support the top-heavy administrative set-up and at the same time, the company can claim that it is efficient in keeping crew maintenance costs down to a minimum. It is interesting to note too, that US Lines has enjoyed other pref­ erences from the NMU in the past, such as the institution of the black­ ball system years before other NMU companies got into the act. Franklin Hails Curran It is also noteworthy, that at recent hearings before the House Merchant Marine Committee the company president. General John Franklin,-had high words of praise for NMU President Joseph Curran because the SS United States "has not been tied up one single day by labor trouble. I want to give cred­ it," he said ... "particularly to Mr. Curran, president of the NMU ..." Obviously, Ijie ability to delay the United States is a powerful weapon which could probably solve the US Lines feeding headache overnight, a weapon the NMU has chosen not to use. No such re­ luctance has been displayed in ty­ ing up American Export, Grace, Mooremack or United Fruit pas­ senger ships in other NMU beefs. A fact that ^ight have a bearing on this situation is the membership of the NMU president, and of Hoyt Haddock, NMU Washington repre­ sentative, on the so-called "LaborManagement Maritime Commit­ tee." ^ The co-chairman of the commit­ tee along with Curran, Is General John Franklin, the prcddent.qf ITS: (Ed. note: The January 31 SEAFARERS LOG carried an article on income tax rules as they apply to Seafarers. The followihg contains more general information about US income taxes useful for shoreside workers and Seafarers in making out tax returns.) While business owners and top executives get away with tax-de­ ductible vacation lodges, country-club memberships and yachts, the Govdilment. puts up a big fight to keep wage-earners from deducting such job expenses as work clothes. Twice last year the US Treasury Department won court rulings, in cases against a painter and a car­ penter, that work clothes are not deductible. According to the J. K. Lasser Tax Institute, the carpenter had de­ ducted $42 for buying overalls, and $20 for laundering them. But the court ruled he had failed to show his employer required him to wear overalls, or that they were uniforms. Anyway, the court said, work clothes used merely to protect ordinary clothing are not deductible. You cannot claim the valuable sick-iiay exclusion on the punch-card form. If you're single but head of a household, you can't get that po­ tential tax-saver from Form 1040A. Nor, if you have a few mutualfund or stock shares, can you get the four percent dividend credit, nor the retirement-income credit for people retired from full-time work. You can take these tax savers on Form 1040. This can be used either as a short or long form. If your potential deductions don't add up td ten percent, use 1040 as a short form by taking the optional ten per­ cent allowance. If your deductions total more than ten percent, itemibe them. Here's a checklist of potential tax-savers wage-earners sometimes overlook. • Sick Pay: Whether or not you itemize deductions, you can sub­ tract from gross income (on page 1 of Form 1040) up to $100 a week of sick pay received after the first week of an illness. • Sideline Losses: You can deduct from your gross income any losses incurred in- a sideline business, as long as you do operate it with the aim of earning profit. • Excess Social Security Tax> Be sure to take credit for excess So­ cial Security payment if you had more than one employer during the year. Bad Debts: Any unpaid debts, even loans to relatives, are de­ ductible. You, your wife and dependent children are $600 exemptions. But also take exemptions for any elderly dependents or married children or grandchildren for whom you pay more than half support, even if they get Social Security, rail retirement or similar non-taxable income. If you itemize instead of taking the ten percent allowance, here are potential deductions: • Contributions: You can deduct cash donations, or the fair market value of goods such as household articles, toys, clothing, books, etc.. donated to -charities, churches, non-profit schools, community-service. Scouts and veterans organizations; cost of Ingredients of foods pre­ pared for church and charity bene­ fits; carfares or cost of gas and oil for your car while performing free service for churches, charities, civil defense, schools and local govern­ ments; church pew rents, assess­ ments and dues; costs and upkeep of uniforms for hospital-volunteer. Red Cross and civil-defense ~ox^ ganizations. • Interest Payments: Deduct mortgage Interest, discount, mort­ gage broker's fees; penalties for prepaying a mortgage; your share of mortgage Interest if a tenantstockholder in a co-op; interest or carrying charges on debts and In­ stallment purchases. • Other Taxes: you can deduct other taxes you pay. including property taxes; state and city in­ come and sales taxes and special local taxes on radio and TV sets, cosmetics, theater-admissions, tele­ phone and utilities fbut not Federal excise taxes); also car and driver license fees, auto "use" taxes, state and city gas taxes and state cig- _ arette taxes if shown separately but not if included in purchase price. • -Medical Expenses; These include payments to doctors, dentists, hospitals; nurses fees and board; costs of drugs and medicines; costs and maintenance of appliances such as eyeglasses, heark^g aids, braces, trusses, arch supports, orthopedic shoes, wheel chairs, crutches; costs of air conditioning, bed board or oxygen equipment advised by sr" doctor to alleviate a specific illness; costs of special dietary, foods and vitamin preparations advised by a doctor if they don't merely replace regular foods; transportation costs to doctors' and dentists' offices and hospitals, including use of your car; premiums for hospital and medicd insurance; cost of staying in a sanitarium or convalescent home to get medical care; costs of special training in speech and lip reading; trans­ portation and board expenses -while going to another place to get treatment for a specific illness, but not just to Improve general heal^ Here is a checklist of job expenses you may be able to deduct: ' • Union dues'and assessments, employnient agency fees. Work uniforms if distinctive and required by your job and not adaptal^e to ordinary wear. ; • Safety clothing such as steel-toe shoes,-goggles, work gloves, hel- ^ mets, aprons and rubber gloves^ r,. 4 • Tools,. Instrumeqta, technical and trade magazines and boc^qSk, 4 : • Stpdents' travel and living cqsjts ^w^s. aw^yj^qm hpm^ �liwiih 14.1»M As is usual in the reports, thereis plenty of comment on the chow served during the trip. Stew­ ard depart­ ments on the Alcoa Runner, Robin Gray, Joseflna, Maiden Creek, Ocean Eva, Rarbara ^ Frietchie, Grain Shipper and the Gurskie Moridng Light all received well-deserved votes of thanks for a job well done. A spe­ cial recommendation was given by the crew of the Fairport to chief cook Alexander Gurskle for his suwess in the culinary department. ^SEAFARERS ship's delegate on the Orion Clip-' per, the crew decided to take up a collection and "adopt" a Jap­ anese family. Over 48,000 yen was given to the new Orion Cli^ per family. Just said. ^ A New York State Court Judge has withheld ruling on the Water­ front Commission's plea for con­ tempt charges against Charles Irv­ ing Velson, East Coast representa­ tive of Harry Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehouse­ men's Union. The agency had re­ quested the contempt charges after Velson refused to answer questions concerning his part in a campaign to organize pier bosses on the East Coast. Justice Benedict Dineen said he would reserve his decision on jail­ ing Velson over his refusal to an­ swer the Commission's questions on a $3,000 donation made by Bridges to Edward Fitzpatrick, brother-in-law of Albert Ackalitis, who is presently barred from work­ ing on piers. Fitzpatrick, leader of the organ­ izing campaign, had informed the Commission that the money was sent to him by Louis Goldblatt, secreta^-treasurer of Bridges' un­ ion, after he appealed to .Bridges for aid on several occasions. AFL-CIO Notifies Ail Infl ~ Unions To Comply On Efhies AFL-CIO President George Meany and Secretary-Treasurer William Schnitzler have writ­ ten to the presidents of all AJTi-CIO international unions calling their attention to the need to obsei^e and enforce the ethical practices codes of the AFL-CIQ. The letter^ which was sent to SIU of NA president Paul union rules and law—in return for ecutive officers of the AFL-CIO Many, of the crews have written Hall as well as to presidents which the member must undertake recognize completely that the forms of the other international unions, to carry out the responsibilities of and procedures of union govern­ in showing their appreciation to the Seafarers who stayed on the Robin Line ship4 and rode them until the elections. Typical of these reports is the one sent in by G. A. Masterson, ship's dele­ gate on the Steel Masterson Executive. Moved by the poverty , of many "We, the crewmembers of the of the families in the ports on SS Steel Executive, wish to extend their itinerary, writes Chester Jnst, our apiH-eciatfon and thanks to all the Robin crewmembers who won a hud struggle for an SIU victory in gaining back our contract. It was a Job well done." Bridges'Man MumOnEast Coast Plans rv^ Seven lOG » » ^ "A good trip, no beefs," means one thing: a good crew and responsible delegates. M. Kleiber, lit delegate on the Pennmar, writes, "I felt that a real fine fellow­ ship existed on board ... I wish to thank each and every mem­ ber for their co­ Kleiber operation, mak­ ing this a pleasant trip. "I only hope there will be more of the same so that I can look for­ ward to another pleasant trip." Sf Shipping Stops Dead SAN FRANCISCO-Shipping for this port as in other West Coast ports almost came to a standstill over the last period. There were no vessels paying off and only one, the Choctaw (Waterman), signed on. In transit were the Steel Voyager (Isthmian), City of Alma (Water­ man) and the Losmar, Marymar (Calmar). Back In The 'Bad Old Days' Arttim sKinclingt lt 1923 vrhife At oboorcl Fbmbh eeasid (ieliqener, Helena. Hiliica h now ertipfoyed by i^e^U-^WS-controcted New Splieing C^mpohy^ ^ states: "It is the purpose of this directive to call to your attention the requirements for action con­ tained in the Ethical Practices Codes and to insure that yotu: union is fully in compliance with this policy position of the AFLCIO." The SIU of North America, at its convention held In San Francisco in March, 1957, went on record as fully endorsing the ethical prac­ tices codes. Subsequently, A&G District membership meetings in all ports endorsed the convention's position. The following is the text of the AFL-CIO letter: "Dear Sir and Brother: "This letter is written to you pursuapt to a resolution of the Executive Council concerning the observance of the Ethical Practices Codes. These Codes, you will re­ member, were adopted at various times during 1956 and 1957, and were reaffirmed by an overwhelm­ ing majority vote of our Second Constitutional Convention at At­ lantic City in December, 1957. "The Ethical Practices Codes are elements of the fundamental policy of the AFL-CIO. They implement the provisions of our Constitution, with its requirement that the AFLCIO and its affiliated unions stead­ fastly oppose corruption. Must Be Enforced "It is the purpose of this direc­ tive to call to the attention of all affiliates of the AFL-CIO that the Ethical Practices Codes, as a mat­ ter of right and of constitutional policy, must he observed and en­ forced. As events during the past two years have indicated, the Codes are both a symbol and a weapon in our common effort to keep the American, lahor movement clean and democratic. "The six Ethical Practices Codes deal with "paper" locals (locals without members); health and wel­ fare funds; racketeers, crooks, com­ munists and fascists; investments and business interests of union officials; financial practices and proprietary activities of unions; minimum accounting and financial controls; and union democratic practices. "While substantial steps have been taken in recent months to bring about complete compliance with the Codes, some imions. while not . by any means ignoring the ob­ jectives and recommended proce­ dures contained in the Codes, have not. yet taken steps to insure com­ plete compliance. "Without going into the detailed requirements of the Codes, the Ex­ ecutive Council has directed us to call to ybur particular attention Code No. 6 dealing with democratic processes. "This Code provides that: 'Each member of a union should have the right to full and free participation in union self-government. This should include the right: (a) to vote periodically for his local and na­ tional officers, either directly by referendum vote or through dele­ gate bodies; (b) to honest elections; (c) to stand for and to hold office, subject only to fair qualifications uniformly imposed; and (<U to voice his views as to the method which the union's affairs should be con­ ducted.' FairTlreatnMiit "It provides that each member of ^e union shall have the right to fair treatment in the applicattdit of union citizenship. "The Code provides that the con­ vention, as the supreme governing body of the union, must be held at least every four years; and that the term of office for all union officials^ should not exceed four years. "It provides that officers must be elected, either through referen­ dum vote or by vote of delegate bodies, under fair rules that con­ tain adequate safeguards for honest and free elections. "It provides that conventions of the union should generally he open to the public, and that proceedings or accurate summaries should be available to th; membership. "It provides '.hat membership meetings of local unions must he held periodically, with proper no­ tice of time and piace.' "It provides that, in order to in­ sure 'democratic, responsible and honest' administration of trade unions, the AFL-CIO and its affili­ ated unions should have the power to institute disciplinary and cor­ rective proceedings, including the power to institute trusteeships where necessary. "The Executive Council again wishes to emphasize, however, that the Code specifically states that such power to institute trusteeship 'should be exercised sparingly and only in accordance with the pro­ visions of the union's constitution, and autonomy should be restored promptly upon correction of the abuses requiring 'rusteeship.' "The Executive Council and ex­ ment do and should vary widely from one organization to another. But we recognize with equal clarity th..t the basic democratic rights of union members, as set forth in the Ethical Practices Codes, must be guaranteed if our trade union movement is to remain strong and capable of meeting the great chal­ lenges of the future. "It is the purpose of this direc­ tive to call to your attention the requirements for action contained in the Ethical Practices Codes and to insure that your union is fuliy in compliance with this policy posi­ tion of the AFL-CIO. In compli­ ance with the Constitution of the AFL-CIO and the resolution adopted by the Executive Council at its mid-winter meeting, the Ex­ ecutive Councii calls upon your union to take all applicable steps to assure complete compliance with the Ethical Practices Codes by April 15, 1958. Extension of time will necessarily be permitted for those unions in which convention action is required under the terms of their own constitutions to take these steps. "We feel certain that in provid­ ing fuli compliance with the Ethi­ cal Practices Codes, your trade union organization will enhance its ability to perform its fundamental role: to serve the membership faithfully and effectively." Fraternally yours, GEORGE MEANY President WILLIAM SCHNITZLER Secretary-Treasu rer 1 40,000 In Florida Living Off Handouts Approximately 40,000 unemployed migrant farm workers in southern Florida are living exclusively off Government food handouts, the "Wall Street Journal" reported. In addi­ tion, the migrants are getting • — kerosene for cooking, some work camps, with each family usu­ clothing and food handouts ally having a one room shack. In from local business firms and individuals. The farm workers were stranded when three succesive freezes de­ stroyed Florida's fruit and vege­ table crops. Most of them do not have any money for gasoline to go on to other areas where they could find work, and in any case, it is too early in the year for them to se­ cure harvest employment else­ where. It is usually May 15 before the migrants can get employment in more northerly areas. Farm Surplus Government food surplus is be­ ing distributed on a large scale in several other areas of high unem­ ployment, but the migrant' farm workers, not having permanent homes or any unemployment bene­ fits, are more severely-affected by unemployment than other groups. An officer of the Florida Depart­ ment of Welfare said that his agency had already distributed 25 to .30 carloads of relief supplies and has ordered 33 carloads more. Migrants come in for food dis­ tribution every 14 days. They get cheese, rice, fiour, cornmeal and powdered miljt from Government surplus. Local relief agencies hand out sugar, lard anJ baking powder, and private firms have'beien chip­ ping in bread,' bananas, canned goods and baby food. IBiraat faaoiHn^ «^ing> 4t one camp, the "Journal" reported, the sanitary facilities consisted of two wash basins and six toilets for every 70 people. Families living outside camps are not so fortunate, with some of them in wooden crate shacks and in cars.~ .:ft\ Vi! 1 .''4 Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations required for certain foreign voyages are reminded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the purser when they pay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when sign­ ing ou for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The inoculation card is your only proof of having taken the re­ quired shots. Those men who forget to pick up their inoculation card wbeta they pay ofi may find that they are required to take all the "shots" again when they want to sign on (or another such voy- •; I ••[Ut I �• SEAFARERS Eight LOG' Biat«h 14. 1«5S Tanker May Get Atom Plant 0-'y. w.- Negotlatlona have been complet­ ed between Local 32B of the Build­ ing Service Employees Interna­ tional Union and two major New York landlord associations to pro­ vide free eyeglasses, a paid day off on their birthdays and extend­ ed hospitalization coverage for the union's 21,000 members. The agreement covers elevator opera­ tors, starters, porters, handymen and other maintenance and cus­ todial workers in 1,100 commercial buildings. iliii;ililiiil||pllli^ $1 Artist's rendering of prototype tanker of the Pipeline class which is now being considered for conver­ sion to nuclear power. Change-over would eliminate stack and alter lines of ship considerably. WASHINGTON—stepped-up drive to put an atom-powered tanker into the water by 1961 has been launched jointly by the Maritime Administration and the Atomic Energy Commission. It would follow by a year the expected completion of the first nuclear-powered US merchant ship, the NS-* (nuclear ship) Savannah. to justify the first nuclear bunker­ that the SIU Pacific District-con­ Authorization has been ing. Admittedly, in the case of tracted American President Lines given for a three-month study on both tankships and freighters, will operate the Savannah when the feasibility of cbnverting a pro­ atomic propulsion would cut down she comes out. Interest in an atom-powered sub­ totype T-5 tanker now under con- the amount of payload taken up by • Etruction to nuclear power. The fuel tanks but the heavy protective marine tanker was heightened last tanker's hull is already near com­ shielding required would neutralize week when the Navy disclitsed that pletion at Ingall's Shipyard in Pas- this saving, except in the case of its newest atom sub, the Skate, made a crossing from New London, huge supertankers. cagoula. Miss. Neither US vessel would be the The tanker hull being considered Conn., to Portland, England, in 203 first atom-powered surface ships in for possible conversion will have hours, just under eight and a half existence, although they would be a length of 615 feet compared to days. She traveled 3,161 miles the forerunners among commercial the war-built 523-foot T-2. It will 2,828 of this under water—in the ships. The Soviet Union announced be a 22,500-ton ship with a speed record West-East crossing. the launching of a 16,000-ton atom- of 20 knots. The 21,800-ton Sa­ The Navy's pioneer atom sub powered icebreaker last November. vannah will have a length of 587 Nautilus, active since January, 1955, The go-ahead for the surface feet. holds the overall speed mark of 195 tanker studies follows an earlier Originally the Government pro­ hours on an East-West crossing announcement by the MA calling posed building a floating atomic from England. One special ad­ for research on a submarine tanker "showcase" with no special com­ vantage of undersea travel was for commercial use, probably with mercial value, but this idea was that the Skate was able to avoid an atom-power plant in mind. Brit­ ruled out by Congress. It voted all the storms in the Atlantic by ain and Japan are also surveying instead for the combination ship traveling submerged where the the possibilities of similar vessels. to see how an atom-powered vessel weather had no effect on its speed Tankers have long been consid­ could pay its waj^. It is rumored or maneuverability. ered more suitable for operation with atom-power plants than dry cargo ships because of the nature of tanker operations. Some ex­ perts contend that atomic propul­ sion can only be profitable in ships of a size already operating in the tanker field. They feel that sus­ tained high speeds, vastly-increased payloads and fast turnaround mean Whatever you need, in work or. dress nothing to freightships which must spend long periods in port loading geor, your SIU Sea Chest has it. Get top and discharging cargo, but jvquld quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ have a bearing for tankers. ing at your Union-owned and UnionThey also seriously question how much dry cargo a freightship op­ operated Sed Chest store. erating on atom power can carry tf. :• r. '. k-. ir '- •'kx-: '•t'T'.- ' iHi-.'-'• Your Gear.. for ship . Boston Jobs Just 'Fair S': • • r-' -mmx ' ' 1" • BOSTON—T h o m a s Holleran, chief of the Trade Union Pro­ grams Division of the Department of Labor, sent a letter of apprecia­ tion to the members of the SIU here expressing his thanks for go­ ing all out in maMng the visit of French labor representatives a cor­ dial and interesting one. "We realize that the success of this type of program would be im­ possible without the cooperation 'of people like who you and those who have assisted you," Holleran said. Shipping for this port has been generally fair, but could not be called good. There were three ves­ sels, the Council Grove, Royal Oak (Cities Service) and the Almena (Pan-Atlantic) paying off and sign­ ing on during the past period. In transit were the Steel Flyer (Isth­ mian); Robin Gray, Robip Locksley (Robin); Winter Hill (Cities Serv­ ice) and the De Soto (Waterman). All were reported in good shape. Port Agent James Sheehan, and his family, wish to thank all those who called and sent sympathy cards to express their condolences upon the l(»is of his brother;'two "-weeks aga for shore Spofi Coats Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeens CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties Sweat Shirts T-shirts Shorts Briefs Swim Trunks Sweaters Sou'westers Raingear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries Electric Shavers Radios Television Jewelry Cameras Luggage the SEA CHEST ^ Terming the union printing label as "evidence that the work was performed under decent wages and working conditions," Michigan Gov. G. Mennen Williams has issued a directive including the use of the label in the state printing contract. Earlier this year the state legisla­ ture had approved a measure mak­ ing it illegal to. counterfeit or imi­ tate the union label. Under the new order, any state officer or em­ ployee who accepts printing with­ out the label (if it is available to the contracting printer) is in vio­ lation of the law and liable:to a $50 fine for each offense. Although the directive applies only to the printing label, "the same tirinciple," Williams said, "of buying goods and services made at prevj^iling wage rates ought to be uni­ versal in state purchases." i> t) Striking members of the United Rubber Workers Union have de­ fended their nation-wide strike con­ sumers' boycott against O'Sullivan Rubber products as an exercise of their right to free speech as guar­ anteed by the Constitution. Picket­ ing and a consumer boycott, they held, are guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits Congress from making any laws abridging the freedom of speech or the right of the people to peaceably assemble. In addition that this, they said, the Taft-Hartley Act also holds picket­ ing and a boycott as legal. Section 8(c) of that act allows the express­ ing of any "views . ... whether in .written, printed graphic or visual form." The answer was filed with the NLRB before the board held a hearing March 4 on the boycott issue. The union was ousted from the company after a decertification election was held last October Carib Queen SoldrUS Only Bidder JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The TMT Carib Queen has been sold in a foreclosure auction to the US Government, the sole bidder for the roll-on vessel. The Carib Queen was the first vessel to obtain a Federally-guar­ anteed mortgage under the 1956 Ship Mortgage Act. The Maritime Administration, which bid $3,450,000 for the vessel, had guaranteed a $4 million mortgage on the ship. A combination of physical" and financial woes for TMT Trailer Fer­ ry, Inc.; owners of the 8,050 ton vessel, was responsible for the forced sale. While on a voyage un­ der charter to MSTS, the vessel -suffered an engine room break­ down and had to go into di^dock for extensive repairs. In addition the company suffered a severe financial setback when it was hit with an $800,000 loss in liquidating stock it had pledged as collateraL The ship will be put into one of the- Government's, reserve fieets until she can be sold or chartered, hearing March 4 on the boycott among strikebearers working the plant. * * t- Adding more gloom to the eco.ncmic outlook, the' Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that living, costs jumped six-tenths of one percent in January, the largest increase in seven months, and the 15th time in the past 17 months that the record hit a peak. Prior to the announcement, the Com­ merce Department reported that while dividends climbed $2 billion in January, wages and salaries dropped more than $2 billion com­ pared to December. Ji 4. UAW officials and the Chrysler Corp. have reached an agree­ ment on some of the basid prob­ lems in the auto industry. One is tliat Chrysler will try to schedule workers for a full forty hours a week and lay off the others so they may collect state unemploy­ ment compensation and companypaid supplementary unemployment benefits. Prior to this the company had drastically cut down its work week, with some men working as little as II hours a week; The com­ pany has also agreed to adjust pro­ duction rates. US Reopens Sears-Retail Clerks Fight WASHINGTON —The National Labor Relations Board's general counsel is reopening the case in­ volving Sears, Roebuck & Com­ pany's Boston branch in a general reexamination of Labor Bdard pro­ ceedings in which Nathan Shefferman's Labor Relations Associates was involved. The February-14 SEAFARERS LOG reported in detail on a "Fortune" magazine feature which described how the Shefferman agency^ was created and backed by Sears, and used by that company and others to defeat union organiz­ ing campaigns by fair means or foul. As a result of th^se activi­ ties 93 percent of the 205,000 em­ ployees of Sears are still nonunion. In the Boston case, the Retail Clerks International Union was the target of company-sponsored Shef­ ferman activities for a number of years including formation of an "Employees Council," spying out and acting against workers with pro-union sentintents, buying off pro-union activists, where possible, establishing a "vote no" commit­ tee to visit workers' in their homes while committee members were on company"^ payrolls for time involved,-transfers, firings and oth­ er tactics out of the union-busting armory. As a result, the clerks lost their election bid to a "no union" ma- . jority. In reporting the case, NLRB noted the company's activities on behalf of Shefferman and his stooge operations. Should the Board call for a new election at the Boston store, it would be a precedent for similar moves in many hundreds of cases ^involving Shefferman's business clients. - �mirA l^ list' , '• . 'hi r. -'•• SEAFARERS L OG 7-. §• • " -,v .i % W v V -"-'1 , «••" -' T .' • r • •^- v.; • '• • -r, .; - ,• .. .-• • •; • : 'r:^,- -^t. -:J^ h 1%'t • '#'••• n -: '% iftv' • 1: > - ;'• WILLIS TUG fLCCT: With BME engineers at the throttles and SIU representation for other crafts, Willis tugs haul bulk paper and general cargo coastwise out of Paulsboro, NJ (shown here). SIU talks on pact reopening are underway again after sidetrack­ ing ot the latest NMU raid. NMU lo^t election 69-2 a year ago. » -J -I ^ Ij iM ,iSl • ''J I -i! . .5! - -'5| sli ll High-flylnr crane unloads paper rolls brought north from Georda, South Carolina mills by Willis tow. Cook James English keeps the whole gang well-fed on the tug Evelyn. On the tug Suwannee, eook George Moore rates ail the culinary honors. Captain Obed O'Neal on the Evelyn gets orders from shore on phone in wheclhouse. iiii :.KI -I - 5;^^ • :;>) • ••Hi-•'In >.tsi Willis tugs Patdoia (foreground) and Jack await orders in Ice-clogged waters alongla Paulsboro. The cpmpany operates nine vessels all together. Home . Port-.ls .Wilailndtpn,,|»<|^^ • Large part of company's coastwise trade Is in haulage of bulk paper from southern . mills. Sbwe workers here are trying to hook up sling, so crane ean lift rolhi. �c^n SEAFARERS FaK» TfeB Absenfee Vote Rules Listed The SIU once again has available a supplly of free-postage "Federal Post Card Appli­ cations" for absentee ballots that can be used in the various state primaries and the gen­ eral elections in November. The first primary coming up is in Illinois on April 8. These cards are obtainable-* at Union headquarters or from forces and GI dependents. The only as a guide on basic questions of voting procedures. In all cases, US shipping commissioners, category "Merchant Marine person­ it's best to act early, if only to shipping companies, seamen's clubs nel" does not always include Great and other union sources in New Lakes seamen and those employed check in advance on the specific rules not only in your state but on the inland waterways. YQrk and other port cities. The digest given here is intended for your city, town or coimty. Generally, the absentee balloting procedure calls for the seaman to mail in a FPCA form to the county where he normally resides. County officials then forward the necessary forms to the mailing address fur' nished by the seaman. On occa­ sion, a separate request must be made to qualify the seaman as a WASHINGTON—A House subcommittee has charged that registered voter. cigarette manufacturers have been misleading the public Primary Votes Too through their advertising of filter tips as an aid in cutting Most states permit absentee bal­ down nicotine and tar and in* loting in the primaries as well as tection." the general elections, in which case, preventing Itmg cancer. After the publication of many a separate ballot must be request­ "The filter cigarette smoker ed on each occasion. Alabama, is, in most cases, getting as much or medical reports of a link between Louisiana. Pennsylvania and Puer­ more nicotine and tar from the smoking and lung cancer, many of to Hico do not permit absentee vot­ filter," the House Government Op­ the name-brand cigarette compa­ ing by seamen, but in Alabama and erations Committee reported, "than nies switched to filter tips," osten­ Louisiana you can. vote in advance he would get from the regular cig­ sibly to prevent nicotine and tar if you are home prior to election arette the advertisers have per® from entering the lungs. suaded him to abandon—for his But the industry had to then re­ day. sort to using stronger tobacco, the State requirements for absentee health . . . voters vary and must be observed 'The cigarette industry has done committee said, and looser filters to closely in order for a vote to be a grave disservice to the smoking allow a greater number of smoke counted. In addition, the rules for public initially, blatantly, and more particles to get through, to ward merchant seamen differ in many recently, very subtly, publicizing off public dissatisfaction over the cases from those for the armed the filter tip smoke as a health pro­ use of filters. Now Filter Cigs Are On Pan; House Group Assails Claims Digest Of State Laws On Absentee Voting For Seamen General Election NoTember 4, 1958* J' STATE Alabama Arizona Arkansas Callfomid Florida Gcorglat Idaho Illinois 8/12 4/8 Indiana 5/6 Iowa Kansas 6/2 B/5 Kentuckyt J/27 Louisiana Maine* Maryland 7/29 6/16 S/20 MasMChusatts Michigan No absentee voting 8/5 Minnesota Mississippi 9/9 8/28 Missouri 8/5 Montana 6/3 Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey 5/13 9/2 No absentee' voting 4/15 New Mexico 5/13 New York North Carolina No absentee voting 5/31 North Dakota Ohio 6/24 5/S Oklahoma Dragon Pannsylvania Rhode island South Carolina 7/1 5/18 5/20 No abscstce voting 6/10 South Dakota Ttnnessee 6/3 8/7 Texas Utah 7/2B 9/9. Varment VIrslhIa 9/9 7/15 not required yes (automatic with baUot) yes none Wai^higton 9/S jres ^(automatic with yes (automatic with ballot) not required ge.o(.»tonutl. with any time 73 day* before 90 days before 21 day* bafore when available not required yes 90 days Men. 2$ day* before when available when ovaibdkle Dalaware •/' :;•• f'': •• ' EARLIEST DATE EARLIEST BALLOT MAIL YOU CAN APPLY WILL BE MAILED REGISTRATION No absentee voting by seamen. Can vote in person SO—5 days before election 30 days before 30 days before yes 90 days before not required --15 days before any time yes (automatic when 20 days before voted) 90 days before 30 days before yea 2 months before yes 2 months before 9/9 No absentee voting No absentee voting 9/9 9/10 Colorado Connci^cut - VA PRIMARY VOTE 5/S 9/9 7/29 6/3 West . Virsinia s/s . • Wisconsin Wyomlns a/9 a/is JUaska* Dawdll Fwerl* Rice «/2S 10/4 Ne ebeeUee yes any time only if re-registering none (not required If voted since 1956) yes none (not required If. voted since 1954) yes (must file by 39th day before election) not required not required 45-days before 60 days before any time 60 days before 3D before primary 60 before general 90 days before 120 before primary - 65 before general any tlm,e 60 days before -AS days before 60 days before when available 30 days before 30 before primary 60 before general 40 days before 21 before primary 25 before general when available none (not required If voted since 1956) No absentee voting for seamen. Can vote in person 10—2 days before election yes any time 30 days before yes (automatic with any time when available ballot) yes (automatic When any time when available applying) yes (must file 30 days 75 days before 42 days before before election) yes any time when avaiCible yes 60 days before 60 before primary 40 before general none (not required in 60 days before 30 days before all localities) yes (must be filed 45 45 days before 30 days before dayr before election) yes 90 days before 15 days before yes 90 days before when available yes (automatic When any time < 20 days before apph'ing) none (not required if any time . 24 days before voted since 1954) yes (automatic when any time for primary when available applying) 7/1 for general yes (file 5/2 to 9/20) any. time when available yes (automatic when any time applying) not required 30 days before none (not required In any time aU locMlUes) not required any time not required 60 days before No absentee voting for eeiimen not required any time. yes (file 30 days before election) yes ^es (automatic with 60 days before 21 days before 60 before, oversea* 30 before, in US when available ~ when available 20 day* before any time when available any time any timet when available 6/10 for primary 9/10 for general when available when available any time - ' 3D days before any time 60 before, in US 90 before, overeeea 7/f •Xxeept Maine (S/aSS) and AJaaka (l0/14/9a> \1 Voter* Voter* qualified qualified if at least U years year* old oM on election day da' fr oveweaa. V/WiiT^ifc-ftg-Vrintary. if oversea*. t<l/l»'ia W. for aeearat^ Mardi 14. xm LOG 30 daysDSFore 60 before, in US 90 before, overseas '' X days before STIIL NAVieATOR (Isthmian), Jan. 1—Chairman, C, Burns; Secretary, P. Heraye. Loss received. Shlp-'s fund $15.10. Few hours disputed ot. New reporter eleoted. No beefs. tary, W. Calhoun. To aeo patrol­ man about new washing machine. Clock to be installed in recreation room. iANTORI (Ore), Feb. IS—Chairman, J. Mehaleu; Secretary, J. •Illott. No beefs. Ship's fund $31.60. Reports ac­ cepted. ' SugsesUon to serve steak twice a week, more fruit juice* and fresh fruit. Take better care of waah1ns mainline. BARBARA FRIITCNIR 'Liberty Navigation), January 1*—Chtlrman, O. Fayne; Secretary, E. Bryan. New •hip's delegate elected. Discussion of draws and cigarettes issue in foreign port. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for fine hoUday meals. HASTINGS (Watarmin), Fab. f— Chairman, T. Jamas; Sacratary, J. Walla. Waahlng machine needa repqirins. Repair liat to ha aubmltted. Sea abont aick men at payoff. Special meeUns to be held with patrolman In regard to hospital and alck men. Good trip with only few beefs. Few hours ot. Few men sick this trip. Chief cook - GRAIN SNIFFER (Grelnlleet), Feb­ ruary t—Chairman. N. Thomas; Socretary, P. J. St. Marie. Steward faUed to meet sldp in New Orleana on saUIng. Crew cautioned on use of too much coffee.^ Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for good job. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), February 1<—Chairman. A.. Maldonaee; Secre­ tary. W. F. O'Brien. Some disputed ot. Everything running smoothly. One man missed ship In ManUa. rejoined in Bangkok. Ship to be exterminated for cockroaches. Most repairs not taken care of! to be completed. Vote of thanks to steward department and baker on his excellent .baking and many extras he put out. BEATRICE (Bull), February 12— Chairman, S. Csrr; Secretary. P. A. Dupply. Dispute on pay for Washing­ ton's birthday—to be put before (Harificatlon Board. Reports accepted. burned foot—tmablo to work few daya. Hava alck men removed from fec'ale and placed in paasenser'a room midship instead of hoepltal. when available. Keep bathrooms clean. Vote of thenki to steward dept. for food moala and to baker for fine paetry. and coffee tidbits. SBATRAIN NSW JSRSSY (Seatrain), Feb. 1*—Chairman, J. Connert; Sec­ retary, R. Nay. All repairs completed. Two men paid off. Members bolding delegate's job shall be for two months. New delegate elected. Check all portbole dogs. SuggesUoa that "steam" radiators be placed In each room— beating system has only 10 lb. pres­ sure. STEEL SURVIVOR (Isthmian), Dae. 1—Chairman, F. Shala; Sacratary S. Smith. All beefs to be taken to dept. delegate. Ship's fund $100. Request to have draw sheet ready for NY. SoUed linen not to be thrown down below. Recreation ropm to be locked up while ship is in port. Ship to be fumi­ gated for insects. Attempt to secure re-condltloned washing machine. $25 to be spents on books. Jan. 5—Chairman, A. Cunningham; Secretary, F. Chals. New delegate elected. Ship's fund $211.30. Discus­ sion on engine watches—to be alter­ nated so all men get equal cargo ot. Proper attire to be worn In galley and messroom. AU beefs to be discussed with delegate. Feb. 22—Chairman, F. Shala; Secre­ tary, J. Gelsiler. Captain refused to caU off logging of two men. One man missed ship, rejoined. Repair list to be made up. Safety program discus-' sed. Repofter wrote travelogue on trip—will send same to LOG for pubUcation. Flowers sent to deceased father of member. Ship's fund $156.03. Two men logged. Reports accepted. Vote of thanks to Robin Lino crews. Motion for Union to buy out slop chest and have it run by union man. Union to clarify and verify draws In foreign ports. Beefs to be brought up at meetinga only. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for Job well done. Crew requested to return all linen for In­ ventory purposes. Steward dept. needa painting. Repair list discussed. COALINOA HILLS (Fan Atlantic), February 2S—Chairman, J. Crawford; Secretary, J. R. Moore. ' Everything running emoothly. A couple men ahort In the steward department. Some disputed ot. New toaster needed In mesahalL Engine dept. wants re­ pair list before arrival. To see about maU being deUvered to siiip and fresh stores, (brew to stop putting linen In pastageways. CITY OF ALMA (Watermen), Feb­ ruary 1<—Chairman, J. Nelson; Sec­ retary, C. Collins. Everything running smoothly. $12 in ship's fund. Sugges­ tion made that the LOGs mailed to crew be distributed among each de­ partment. DEL VIBNTO (Mlnlsilppl), February 14—Chairman; R. Nebert; Seeretery, J. N. Emery. New delegate elected. Suggestion made to.try and get new machine—to be taken up at next meeting. GATEWAY CITY (Watorman), Feb­ ruary 27—Chairman. W. R. Heme; Secretary, J. F. Austin. Ship's dele­ gate elected. Reference made con­ cerning repairs. $2.50 In ship's fund.. To contact negotiation committee about time off for unlicensed mem­ bers on all trailershlps—to see fami­ lies. etc.; also for telephone to be° placed aboard in every port for In­ coming calls; and watches between S PM and a AM on trailershlps be ot. Contact patrolman to get more milk. Each member to give $.25 to ship's fund for phone calls and postage. Men getting off ship to inform dele­ gate so that replacement* can be obtained. MICHAEL (Carras),-'Febreery 2«™ Chairmen. S. E. A. Bayne; Secretary) R. MaHel. Dispute over monthly pay­ off to be taken' up with patrolman. Some disputed ot. Repair lists to be submitted to Captain. ORION STAR (Orion), February t— Chairman, O. Herding; Secretary, R. Mills. Crew to be able to draw on the ot. Company to make replace­ ments. Beef onJaimch service. New delegate elected. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seetrain), February 21—Chairman, Gasper; Sec­ retary, S. Swords. More coffee needed aboard. Reports accepted. February 27—Chairman, R. Stewart; OCEAN ULLA (Ocean Trans.), Feb­ . ruary 9—Chairman, L. Strange; Sec­ Secretary, R. Velkerts. Repair Usts to retary, D. Bransccle. Repairs being be submitted. Some disputed ot. Do made.~ Galley, mesahalls and pantry not run washing machine without watching. to be painted. Plumbing needs re­ pairing. AU portbolea to be checked SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Feb­ and dogs freed. Delegates to submit ruary 23—Chairman, R. Foesler; Sec­ repair list. retary, M. Garel. No beefs. $90.50 in fund. To see about clarifica­ WiLLESLEV VTCTORV (Utbmlsn), ship's tion of lodging due crew from pre­ Fsbruary 2—Chairman, J. Bluitt; Sec­ retary, R. V. Gelling. Delegate re­ vious payoff and warn crew of neces­ of checking off with patrolman ported that logs would be dropped. sity Coast Guard not going to be brought before leaving ship. Into logs. Write up ot halldozer In­ ROBIN SHERWOOD (Robin), Febru­ cident was sl.lghtly garbled in the It—Chairman, S. W. Johnson; SEAFARERS LOG. Not intended to ary Sacratary, W. Konirt. Everything run­ make chief mate a hero—just quoted ning smoothly. To see patrolman re­ from copy of report to show his point. Seven men logged. Repairs taken garding rust water. Some disputed care ot except for painting rooms. ot. S11.4S in ship's fund. To contact' Several complaints about drinking headquarters regarding grade of water during trip. No cooperation •tores placed aboard. Brothers asked to be more quiet In passageway dur­ from chief for the entire trip. One ing nights. man left ship iU in Bombay. Reports accepted. Vote of thanks to crew of ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman), Robin Una ships during beef. February t—Chairman, R. D. VlrsHle; Sacratary, B. Shapiro. Noise from MORNINO LIGHT (Waterman), Feb­ pipes to be flxed. SaS.ll in ship's ruary 4—Chairman, J. Gulgley; $ee- fund. General meeting eonemnlns retary, W. 1. Morse. AU repair UsVe to food and drinking water. Suggestloa be turned over to ahip'a deUgato bo- made to pqt fmlt Juices la Ico box at fore arrival In port. $35 In TV repair aU times-. To pay laundry bffl from fund. Suggestion to make cup drains iblp'a fund. for wastauig macbino. Vote of tbanka to steward department for good job. CNIWAWA (CItleg Service), PObniFebruary If—Chairman, i. C. Cexi ary 3—Chairmen, H. Hodsew Secre­ Secretary, W. H. Morse. Obtain in­ tary, W. Dickens. One man missed surance cards from ship's delegate. To •Up In JacksonvlDe. Florida. New BOO patrolman about soot blowers to . delegate .-elected. To. see eh. eng. boilers. Sea patrolman about new •bout fixing door to pumpmen'e room. refrigerator for the crew's mess- Request for more fresh fruit to be rooms. Vote of thsnke to steward, brought out oadiJitglit. department for Job weU done. •VRLYN (BolU, Fobrwery IS-ChetP' FAIRFORT (Watermen), February • men, C,. Heiutov; Secretary, R. M. —Chairman, J. A. Dunn; Secretary, Deuslet, Sdtuo disputed ot One man R. Harris. One man hospitalised in imiaaed ship la JCOxice.Pieeuesioa on Vancouver. WagUngton. $$ in idiip'g cleaning e^tarwiurs. fund. Kach man to donate $.50 to Suad. Veto of thanks to steward deRSiTH (Bufi), Jasuanr iS-rCheliy an, R. FraoMln; Secretary, J. F. partmant for Job waU dona. FAIRLAND (Fan^ Jktiantie), Doaom* bor «-«hair(H<;l^: 4) iK. Wrtlttl' SMff^ Byrne. Kvorytblag Swuilat smoottily. ?*dp'e dalosiMKOleeted. One men hurt in engine room. -TSH-', �SEAFARERS March 14. 195S About A Subsidy? I'd Uko To Expand' % Pace EICTCB LOG * Seek To Conciliate Canada Pact Beef A MONTREAL—^The SlU Canadian District negotiating com­ mittee has requested the Minister of Labor to appoint a gov­ ernment conciliator to assist in the settlement of the District's proposals for a new Lakes con--^-" tract in 1958. The request Lakes' trade was on routes on the came after a stalemate in upper St. Lawrence where foreign negotiations between the District and the shipowners over major is­ sues in the agreement. Under Canadian law, the pro­ posals will be sent to a Federal Conciliation Board for considera­ tion if no affirmative action on a new contract is taken by the ship operators. The District is asking for a firm manning scale on Lakes vessels, a shorter work week and a ten-cent hourly pay boost, with the hourly rate of pay replacing the old monthly scale, paid statutory holi­ days, elimination of work spread for deckhands and other improve­ ments in living and working con­ ditions. Wage Request Low A spokesman for the negotiating committee said that the union de­ liberately kept the wage increase to a low ten cents an hour so as not to impose a heavy financial burden on Canadian-fiag companies who have been under competitive pressure from foreign-flag vessels in both their coastwise and domes­ tic trades. In pressing its demands, the com­ mittee pointed out that most of the Voters Beat •t- There's been some strange doings in the ranks of the run­ Lk. Charles shipowners lately, the ones who owe their sole allegi­ ance to the flag of the dollar. The first was the news that a Sales Tax Puerto Rico away couple of runaway operators want to come back imder the US so as to be able to bid on US government cargoes and LAKE CHARLES—Backed by IBL Strikes get flag the higher US cargo-carrying rates under the "50-50" law. organized labor, voters here re­ seems that so many of them went the runaway route that jected by some 1,700 votes a pro­ Trailership Itthere are far too many ships competing for the foreign-flag posed one percent city sales tax, Leroy Clarke, port agent, reported. SAN JUAN—Members of the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Long­ shoremen here have tied up the Waterman trailership Bienville in a dispute over the number of longshoremen to be employed tn unloading the vessel. The Bienville was the first Wa­ terman trailer-carrier to enter the Puerto Rican service. IBL long­ shoremen are demanding a mini­ mum of five gangs to be used to work the ship, plus 55 cents a ton to go into a fund for the assistance of longshoremen displaced by the new operation. it At present, Puerto Rico does not have any unemployment benefit system although one is being set up. Waterman originally offered to work the ship with two gangs of 21 men each.' The Puerto Rican government is attempting to me­ diate the dispute. A similar dispute over bulk load­ ing of sugar was resolved last month when Governor Munoz Marin worked out a formula to'the satisfaction of all. m PHOVJS ?0£1KY share of "50-50" cargoes, thus driving the rates down, and commercial cargoes are not enough to go around. On the tanker sc^ne, the Aristotle Onassis interests have decided that they want out on the 106,000-ton tanker they were to build for American-flag operation. The huge supertanker was to have been built as part of a "firm" arrangement with the Maritime Administration under which Onassis was per­ mitted to. transfer a whole slew of tankers and Libertys to foreign registry. The Onassis bid is already stirring a furore in Confess where some representatives expressed decided skepticism when the original arrangement was announced. T^en as the final touch comes the news that the SS Yar­ mouth, formerly of American registry, is going to go back on its old Boston to Nova-Scotia summer run under the Pan­ amanian flag—provided the Nova-Scotian government comes across with a subsidy. The spectacle of Canadian taxpayers subsidizing a runaway ship on an American-Canadian service, while the US and Canadian merchant fleets shrivel before the onslaught of runaway competition, is a fine exaniple of the "no holds barred" tactics of the runaway shipowners. jp 4. 4- Pretty Obvious For the past couple of weeks, the Senate investigating committee which is supposedly looking into labor racketeer­ ing has been "investigating" the United Automobile Workers strike against the Kohler company. In the course of the "investfgation" one of the "right to work" advocates on the com­ mittee started asking a UAW representative whether he had set up housekeeping with a woman to whom he was not married but who later became his wife. A cynic might well be prompted to ask since when Senators have become certified saints. But aside from that, this type of questioning, (incidentally, ther^ was no suggestion that union funds were involved) clearly reveals what the motives of the "right to work" brigade are: to smear unions by any means with some kind of tar so as to promote legislation to destroy the trade union movement. If the union can't be at­ tacked on its handling of funds then the idea is to poke around into union men's personal lives. • In a sense, the "right to work" advocates on this committee have rendered a service to the labqr movement, because they have shown exactly what their motives are by their clumsy approach and have lost themselves consid^^le support in the Senat^iaecorddnglyv This was the second time since 1953 that this tax has been de­ feated, and from the talk around town, it will be beaten every time it comes up until labor has some assurance that the revenue will be used for the purpose it was in­ tended for. Unions Enjoined Elsewhere oh the labor front, temporary injunctions were issued against the local Butchers Union and the Building Trades. The Building Trades unions had ex­ tended their organizing drive among non-union contractors in the area during the past month and bad shut some down. There has been no word as yet on the fii;al hearings on the injunctions. Although shipping took a bad drop in this port, six class C men were able to si^ on during the period. A and B men are either taking it easy on the beach, or are waiting for special runs and ships. Calling into the area over the past two - weeks were the Bents Fort, Royal Oak, Winter Hill, Cantigny, Chiwawa, Council Grove, CS Baltimore (Cities Service); Coalinga Hills. (Pan-Atlantic) and the Del Monte (Mississippi). All were reported in good shape. competition was not dangerous. The wage increase represents the difference in dollar value purchas­ ing power over the past calendar year. The Lakes companies employ the bulk of the District's member­ ship. Propose Big Boost In US Farm Cargo WASHINGTON—A whopping $2 billion increase in overseas ship­ ments of agricultural surplus is being proposed by Senator Allan Ellender (Dem.-La.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Agricul­ ture and Forestry. The surplus sliipments travel under provisions of the "50-50" law and have been a mainstay of US merchant ship­ ping for the past four years. $4 BiUion Until Now The total authorization since the act went into effect in 1954 has been $4 billion. The Ellender bill would put $500 million of the sum to work immediately in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1958, with another $1.5 billion scheduled for the July 1, 1958—June 30, 1959 period. For the current year, the agri­ cultural surplus program has been scheduled at the $1 billion rate, so that the Ellender proposal would give it a 50 percent shot in the arm, and keep it at the increased level in the 12 months following. Sales And Gifts Shipments covered by the pro­ gram includes sales of surplus at modest prices and in terms of for­ eign currencies, plus outright gifts of commodities for famine areas and other relief purposes. It is expected that the Senate Agriculture Committee will ap­ prove the Ellender proposal with­ out much ado. In submitting his bill, Ellender declared: "The request for a larger authorization this year is caused by changing world conditions. The dollar position of several countries has worsened and greater demand has resulted from poor harvests overseas. Shipments under past programs, particularly wheat for India, have been acclerated." Ellender said his call for imme­ diate additional funds was prompt­ ed by the need to schedule ship­ ments on an orderly basis. If Con­ gress doesn't provide the $500 mil­ lion for the remainder of the fiscal year, he said, the program is likely to grind almost to a halt before July 1, 1958. Stay Put For Idle Pay Seafarers who are collecting state tmemployment benefits while on the beach waiting to ship are urged to stay put and avoid changing their maiUng addresses if they want to continue re­ ceiving their checks regularly. Several Seafarers have already experienced interruptions of from three to five weeks in getting their next check after they notified the state unemployment offldbs that they had moved and changed their mailing address. An average delay of a month is reported in most cases, causing. considerable hardship to the men involved. 'tr U • t 'Hj • 1 S--. .UJ LftU • "I • j •1 "vi *xy. •Si •••I �p- l-"' Pare Twelve SEAFAKBRS 'Why No Customs Break For Us?' Del Valle Asks Family Honors Repeating their demand of two years ago for a "fair deal" and the right, like other Americans, to bring in a limited amount of duty-free Souvenirs from overseas, the crew on the SS Del Valle has dispatched+ gone to- sea for years who have another appeal to Congress. A letter echoing their earlier never been permitted free entry appeal (LOG, June 8, 1956) was on any article purchased in a for­ sent fromp Santos, Brazil, to Sena­ eign country. •'We realize that the amount tor Warren G. Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Inter­ American seamen would spend state and Foreign Commerce. It abroad would be small inTelation proposed a sliding scale of allow­ to the dollar needs of most coun­ ances based on time spent on for­ tries, but however small it would eign articles co remedy the present be, it would still be a considerable source of dollar income to those situation. Existing regulations enable ship countries. At present most men passengers to bring in up to $500 curb their desire to purchase any­ of personal purchases duty-free. thing abroad due to the unknown Similar provisions apply to service additional amount they must pay personnel, including crews on in duty upon return to the USA." Another point raised was wheth­ Government-owned ships. However, the Del Valle noted, er the expenditure on Customs' "We as merchant mariners em­ iiiFpections when US merchant ployed by private American com­ ships return here was Justified in panies are allowed absolutely noth­ terms of the duty collected. This ing duty-free." The overaU restric­ also leads, they said, to an "unfair tions for merchant seamen appear and humiliating" practice of Cus­ designed almost in retaliation toms' searches of seamen's quar­ against civilian sailors because of ters and personal effects trip after their better chances to pick up trip, seldom with a warrant. The Del Valle also protested the bargains, they pointed out. "There are many men who have "double taxation"' on foreign-made items, many of them bought in the US, because a seaman cannot pro­ duce a sales slip or a Customs' re­ Be Sure To Get ceipt and has to pay the duty Dues Receipts twice. "In other words we are con­ Headquarters a_gain wishes to sidered guilty of smuggling unless remind all Seafarers that pay­ we can furnish satisfactory proof ments of funds, for whatever to the Customs' officials of our in­ Union purpose, be made only nocence," the crew emphasized. to authorized A&G representa­ The letter was signed by all the tives and that an official Union officers, and by F. P. Russo, ship's receipt be gotten at that time. delegate; Charles E. Nuber, bosun; If no receipt is offered, be sure C. E. Wheat, deck delegate; E. W. to protect yourself by ixnmedi- Anderson, chief .steward; B. Tingately bringing the matter to the engine delegate, and Charles attention of the secretary-treas­ ley, Barkins, steward delegate, on urer's office. b^alf of the SIU crew. LOG mi I -i-'^" 'II (J-l-V -:V*>' f •"• u n';.- • ' ' II lisli fe"',''- iiv. life Hector Mina Felix Winford PoweU Nolan Flowers G. A. Puissegur Matthew Gardiner Randolph BadcliS Leon Gordon Allen Ritchie Hebert Grant Harold Scott George Huber James Shearer James Hudson Wert A. Spencer Carl Jensen Rufus Stough Sr. Edward G. Knapp Ralph Sturgis Antoine Landry .Nicholas Tala Leo Lang Gerald L. Thaxton Timothy Less Luclen Theriot John Linn Juan Vazquez Frank Martin James E. Ward D. McCorkindale C. C. Wood Jr. Jerry Miller Clifford Wuertx Edwin M. MltcheU Walter A. Yahl Cecil Morris Jacob Zlmmer Michael Mozlo USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH. GA. Elmer G. Bremer Monroe C. Gaddy C. C. Burkett Jimnde Littleton Paul R. Cook James T. Moore Forty Winks Harvey Hiomas, FWT, en{oys his siestoi In the Psrjian Gulf by sleeping on deck with his friends the flies, says Billy J. Walker on the Steel Vendor. Thomas bunked down under, q ladder heading topside. ^^ i Hospital Movie Program A Hit Letters To The Editor All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be sipned by the writer. Names lotll be withheld upon request. Luke A. Ciamboli shows off the new addition, Luke, Jr., born Jan. 18 in San Francisco. Above, April Joy Lietz, 8, shows the form and costume that won her first prize in a Tampa talent show. Dad is David W. Lietz, AB, now on the LaSalle. . USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIF. Claudius G. Archer Wm. A. Oswinkla Joseph H. Berger Laron A. Ready Frank B. HcCoUian H. J. Schreiner John C. MltcheU Lewie A. WUkerson Charles T. Nangle USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK. VA. Clarence Barrineau Frank T. CampbeU Claude L. Bibb CharUe Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. A. H. Blanchette George T. Morgan John Farrand Vincent L. TaraUo Elmer H. Grose Joseph Thomas USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS R. J. Arsenault Louie Holliday Alec R. Clary Lawrence T. Mays WUUam E. Eklns S. Moustakas Norman B.. Hadden USPHS HOSPITAL , SEATTLE. WASH. Lawrence E. Bond P. W. McDonald G. B. Dunn Cameron E. Wootex Arthur A. Furst USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Ben W. Buck John Maaslk Chas. CaUahan Henry MachlinsU James CardeU Harry Muches Arthur Cox Frederick Mulr Raymond Dabney Thomas Mungo James R. Dayton Clarence Murray Jenaro Diaz Jose A. Ferez Antonio DoAmaral Eugene Platan Clarence Gardner Alexander Rever * Gorman T. Glaze Joseph BoU Archie D. HaU Eugene Roszko Frederick Harris Herbert Shartzer James Haynes John A. Smith Walter Jackson Claude Virgin Alejandio Lopez Ople C. WaU Peter Losado Merwyri Watson Billy Earl Lynn K. KorneUusen VA HOSPITAL . BOSTON. MASS. / Thomas W. KUUon VA HOSPITAL KECOUGHTAN. VA. Joseph GUI USPHS HOSPITAL WINDMILL PT. DBrTBOTT. MICH. WUUam DriscoU USPHS HOSPITAL ^ MEMPHIS. TENN,; Charles Burton SAILORS SNUG HARBOR ~ STATEN ISLAND. NY \ Victor B. Cooper MONTEBKLLO CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL "' : BALTIMORE. MD. • Francisco Buene ^ -fev - To tlie Editor: Again In January, through the courtesy of your Union, oui^ pa­ tients at the Boston marine hos­ pital viewed three good movie features on the 3rd, 17th and 29th. As always, they were appreci­ ated and'enjoyed, and added im­ measurably to the morale and welfare of those fortunate enough to see them. Our hospital has added a SEAFARERS IN THE HOSPITALS USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NY W. C. Katarzynskl Ervin Crabtree Steve Kliderman Oscar J. Adams Edward Matte Hassen AU Albert MartineUi Joseph J. Bass Robert Murray Edmund Blosser BiUie Padgett T. C. Cepriano Juan J. Reinos Hoe Yee Choe Vincente Remolar Jose CoUados Conrad Reyes Rupert Daniels Charlie Dougherty Leonard Rhino Jose Rodriguex Ralph DuffeU Henry Rowe Ralph Dunsmoor Isaac Sieger Frederick Fulford Harold W. Simmons David Furman James F. Thompson Juan P. Garcia George ThornhiU Everett Haislett Anlello Verdamara Wade B. HarreU Henry Watson Peter Heulu USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS Lawrence Anderson W. E. Orzechowskl B. F. Delbler John C. Pahner James R. Hodges Harold J. Pancost Robert Ingram A.^J. Panepinto Woodrow Meyers Paul W. Seldcnberg VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON. TEXAS John P. Williamson USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLYN. NY Manuel Antonana Kenneth Lewis Patrick McCann Eladio Aris Fortunato Bacomo Archibald McGulgan Herbert Mclssao Melvln W. Ross Leo Mannaugh Linzy Bosley Joaquin Minis James F. Clarke W. P. OUea Juan Denopra C. O^sU John J. DriscoU George G. Phifer Fabin Furmanek William Rackley Odis L. Gibbs Winston E. Renny Joseph M. GiUard George E. Shumaker .Bart E. Guranick Henry'E. Smith Taib Hassen Harry S. TutUe Antonio Infante VirgU E. Wilmotta Thomas Isaksen Pon P. Wing Claude yB. Jessup Woodrow Johnson Dexter Worrell Ludwig Kristiansen PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL SAN JUAN. PR Harold E. Shockley EASTERN SHORE STATE HOSPITAL CAMBRIDGE. MD. Thomas R. Lehay VA HOSPITAL 1ST AVE. & 24TH STREET NEW YOBK. NY Salvatore Legayada USPHS HOSPITAL l^EW ORLEANS. LA. ' Robert G. Barrett Clolse Coatv John W. Bigwood Charles Cbrrent 'Claude Blanks '!AMlphggl. I^aVlch March 14, USt. - shuffleboard table to the facili­ ties in the auditorium, and mili­ tary personnel and seamen alike are getting a great deal of pleas­ ure out of it. This game is played roughly at waist level, which makes it very handy and less tiring for many of the pa­ tients. On behalf of the patients, the hospital, and myself, we thank you most sincerely for your con­ tribution to our January pro­ gram. June McGuire Director of Recreation 4" t it well. at it and eventually becan)e an SIU bookmember-. Billy has now been on the Alcoa Corsair for over a year as 2d cook and is doing alL he can to show his appreciation for be­ coming an SIU member. Last trip he was elected ship's delegate for his first time. Though be had a few major decisions that had to be made, he handled the situation very well. Hats off to a swell ship­ mate and good fellow. Manilce "Duke" Duet 4" 4" t Dei Mar Bacics PHS Program . To the Editor: There is nothing much to re­ port from the Del Mar as this has been a wonderful trip. As ship's delegate 1 wish to thank all delegates for their coopera­ tion in making this such a good trip. It was reported at pur last meeting that a total of 612 let­ ters were mailed to the Sent* tors ancL Representatives in Washington by the crew of this ship to protest any closing of the marine hospitals or budget cuts. There was also a vote of thanks adopted for the men who stayed on the Robin Line ships and made the SIU victory possible. Francis B. Howard Ship's delegate C. M. Dbwling Ship's secretary t i 4" Alcoa Pioneer Crew Applauded To the Editor: 1 would like to take this op­ portunity to thank the crew of the SS Alcoa Pioneer for the To the Editor: I'd like to thank you for send­ kindness- and sympathy shown ing me the LOG in Arizona and me due to the recent death of ask that you revise your mailing my father. 1 am proud to have list so I can get it at home. I "- the privilege of sailing with have not sailed for quite a while such men. Matthew Rbsato now, but when I did you can bet it was SIU. 4" The last time I shipped was Lauds Heskins^ In Lake Charles, La., and the port agent then was the same as Floral Gift the brother there now, Leroy To the Editor: With the recent passing away Clarke. Yes, I can also-say he rates as one of the best in his of-my dad, 1 sent a radiogram to my husband, William F. line. I am married, have two chil­ Earth, aboard the SS Fort Hosdren, a boy 13 and a girl ten klns. He is the chief cook on years old, and call Jackson. there. What 1 thought was so won­ Miss., my-home. I enjoy getting the LOG and can see how much derful was what the crew on the has been done for the seaman. I ship did after finding out about really miss the sea and would my loss. The men got together and sent an offering of beauti­ like to go back. I ffrst went to sea in 1925, ful Rowers to express their sym­ made a world cruise in the pathy. Their kindness came at Navy, came out In 1929 and a time when it was deeply shipped coastwise out of New appreciated. Mrs. WlUiam F. Earth Orleans. 7n fact, all the trips I made were coastwise. Though 1 a, i t love it at sea, I got settled He Appreciates ashore in the iron workers and Welfare Assist then had a family. f think I'd like to take a To the Editor:. whack at sailing again as I'm I'd like to thank the SIU Wel­ only 49 and In good health, so fare Department for the quick I may see some of the boys action on a problem of mine again soon. that 1 wrote In about. Raymond Go^ey It is really a comfort to know t) 4> that the Union looks out for its members and their families Corsair Cooic when they are in need. . Once Draws Praise again, "thank you" to the wel­ fare department for alllts help. To the Editor: . Jack Blnitt' A few years ago I became shipRiates with Robert. ^. Wells 4> 4) . 4" . • on the "SS Antlnous.- At that Del Aires Crew time, Robert, who was known as "Dilly," was galleyman on board Gets 'Thank You' and was relatively new in our To the Editor: organization. 1 would like to thank the crew He was well-liked by all the of the SS Del Aires foi* the nice men on bogrd, so when our wreath for my mother, Mrs. chief cook quit In Miami and Reba Williatns. She passed aWy " there, was liot one to replace on the 4th of February. My him the crew requested that many -thanks to, all for toeir Billy Wells take the chief cook's kindness. • r-J, 'I-. i,/.; jq|). He took the job, did jvery Aubrey "Buck" Winianui , Longs For Sea After Shore Job . V"'. �SEAFARERS 14. 19SS Florida State Beef? Steaks Are Too Big Pace Thirteea LOG They Grow Accustomed To Your Face i By Seafarer William Calefato' Koreans almost never forget a face. They always remember you, whether for some special kindness or an outstanding They've got a rare beef going on trait, good or bad. But sometimes the memory plays tricks, or two faces look alike, and then things get complicated. the SS~ Florida State. , It'a not ex­ One case in point was when a Jean LaFitte crewmember, whom we'll call Frank, was kicked by a fierce little young­ actly that the beef—or the lamb or the veal—is-too rare, though that ster, v/ho quickly ran away,"Joe for looking like him, while he ' bad as some other things that sans, even when they don't carry a hiay be at the bottom of the whole ! all the time shouting back in took all the punishment. stick, so she won the fight and _ could happen. affair in the first place. broken English: "You must have a hell o' a repu- / One shipmate found himself in a rescued the visitor. It's just that some of the crew "Takee that, you lousy Joe— tation "among the natives here," spot when an old gent approached "Why did you do it, mamsan," are upset because the steaks are too you peek—you beeg, beeg— Frank complained. "They think and acclaimed him as his sister's the sailor asked her later, to which big. — Frank didn*t have time to tell I'm you and I get kicked in the missing husband. Talking as fast a girl interpreter replied: Of course, this sort of beef the boy he wasn't Joe. But Joe pants for something you must have as a race track announcer, the old- "Mamsan say you good man. timer said that the obligations of You make big present to her one doesn't arise too often, so it does must have done something on pre­ done." a married man were important in year past. Mamsan say she know have some historical merit. The vious trips, like refusing the boy This was all very amusing to Joe. shoe is usually on the other foot, alms or chewing gum or cigarettes. He just looked at Frank, as if to Korea and the seaman should own you face." because the steaks are a mite small, When this happened a second time say it wasn't his fault they looked up to the facts. Our man protested to the native All in all, it's wise to keep your or too tough, or not served often further in town, Frank decided to alike. Anyway, getting kicked In i that he was the wrong guy. Out nose clean in Korean or other for­ enough. On the Florida State, at least, they seem to have none of go back to the ship and bawl out the pants by little boys is not as j of all the thousands who visit Ko- eign ports. That way, your face ' rea, he asked, how did the old gen- and other parts will be spared a those troubles. ! tleman know he was the one—he lot of trouble. The request for skimpier sirloins 'Sea-Spray' By Seafarer who already had a wife and six was noted in the'ship's minutes kids in New York? recorded by M. G. Gaddy, secre­ Fish Story "By your face. By your face!" tary, but apparent./ no one offered the native almost screamed at him. a solution for the problem during "There could be no other man the meeting. Most of the boys were with such a magnetic personality, probably floored by the idea and such classic features, such honor­ some probably haven't recovered able intentions, such—," he per­ yet. sisted. Somehow a pitch for smaller It took great persuasive powers ateaks doesn't seem to be the kind to shoo -the old man away, but he of thing that will readily cause finally left. Our man was left won­ the manning of the barricades, or dering whether he'd just been a frantic call for a union patrol­ treated to a made-in-Korea vari­ man, except maybe by those who ation of the old badger game, but like their steaks well-proportioned. anyway he wasn't bothered again. One thing's sure. The boss won't Sometimes a long-forgotten fa­ kick. vor is repaid in unexpected ways. Ohe such case happened when two youths started a fight with a sea­ Shorthanded? man who was relaxing in a bar. If a crewmember quits while The sailor was being overpowered a ship is in port, delegates in the scuffle when the old and are asked to contact the hall withered mamsan who operated the Charles Ellen on the Marymor Immediately for a replace­ establishment came out from the ment. Fast action on their part aimed his camera a bit low, back. She carried a stick in one will keep air Jobs aboard ship but he couldn't miss the fish. hand and swatted at the two at­ filled at all times and elimi­ J. Coppell, A. Reosko and L tackers plus two others who had nate the chance of the ship Tolias ( to r) shore the honors come off the street to join in. sailing shorthanded. Everybody respects those mamfor nabbing this dolphin. Okay, okay. So can't a cook have a bad day once in a while?? STBIL VOYAOBR (ItthmUn), P«b. 11—Chairman, J. Brown; Sacratary, F. Quintayo. .Beat In rooma not regulated. $14 in ahip'a fund. Keep toUeta clean.' Submit repair Ust to Headquarters. DBL MAR (MIsi.), Fab. 1—Chairman, R. Slough, Jr.; Sacratary, C. Dewllng. Fund $19 in red at start of trip, but now have balance of $206.45. $16 given to repatriated aeaman. Vote of thanks to men on Robin Una ships. Moaay raised for movies for next trip. $12 letters -mailed to protvist of hopital and budget cuts. ALCOA RANOBR (Alcoa),' Fob. I— Chairman, J. McLaughlin; Sacratary, K. Fostar. One man performing on ship, referred to Union. Reports ac­ cepted. Discussion on Bull beef, Roblh Line. New ~aelegate elected. Vote of thanks to ship's delegate for fine lob. Btaward and deck depts. showers Bzed. lose lifted. Good trip so far. Some disputed ot. MoUon to hold meeUnga once a month on long trips. Discuoaion on welfare of aU members. FBNNMAR (Calmer), Fab. *—Chall^ man, F. McKanzle; Secretary, V. Monte. Shortage of hot water. Re­ pair list to be submitted. Pleasant trip. Report accepted. Washing ma­ chine wringer to be repaired. Do not place glaasea In sink. STEEL FABRICATOR (Isthmian), Jan. 31—Chairman, L. White; Secre­ tary, •. Mastarson. AU repairs being made. Screen doors and port hole screens ordered. Shower heads and ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), Fob. IS— Chairman, L. Richardson; Sacratary, R. Hall. Two new men from San Juan. Showers and bathrooms to be locked in port. Ship's fund $9.25, New delegate elected. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine food. Messman thanked crew for assisrtance during meals in rough weather. Reports ac­ cepted. SSATRAIN NEW YORK (Seatrain), Feb. It—Chairman, C. Johnson; Sec­ retary, C. Oliver; Soma disputed et. Reports accepted. New delegate elect­ ed. Discussion on shortage of various stores: messman and steward. Jan. 23—Chairman, J. Colo; Secre­ tary, C. Ollvar. Veto ot thanks to steward for fine cooperaUon. New delegate alactad. Discussioa serving watch earlier. ALCOA PURITAN (Alcos), Feb. 9— Chairman, J. Nalson; Secretary, J. Brasflald. Delegate reported poor and inadequate medical treatment admin­ istered to unUcensed personnel. Head­ quarters to be notified. Ship's fund $1.75. Minor beef in steward dept. New delegate elected. Refrain from using profanity in messroom. Mem­ bers requested to be sober at meet­ ings. BRADFORD iSLAHQ (CHias SarvIco), Jan. 31—Chairman, F. Langley; Bocrotary, M. Olson. Two men missed ship, no beefs. Repair list submitted. Need two new mattresses for engine dept. New delegate elected. OOVERNMENT CAMP (Cities Serv­ ice); Feb. IS—Chairman, F. Oradoxxli Secretary, T, Maianson. Few hours disputed ot. Washing machine to be ' turned off after using and left clean. JOSEFINA (Liberty Navfgatlen), Feb. 2—Chalrr.ian, A. Slrlgane; Secre­ tary, J. Lundy. One brother hospitalired in Honolulu—headquarters no­ tified. Crew to obtain price on laun­ dry before sending to Manila. Sug­ gest members draw enough in Manila to carry them through bunker ports. Some disputed ot. Rqport Mcepted. Repair list to be turned in. Doors to passageways will be locked while in Philippines to keep undesirables j>ut. Cups to be returned to messroom. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for good food and baking. KENMAR (Calmer), Feb. 3—Chalrm»», F. Alboro; $ecretary, J. Marahall. Two men ill. Patrolman notifled concerning transportation. Gear •f biMBitallsed man taken care ef. Sailing board time to be brought to RStrdman'a attehtion. Some disputed •t. Beef with ^ef mate to be Set. Sled at payoff. To contact captain to bnlld catwalk on lumber going back •fb Suggestion to have TV aboard ice making machine taken care of. Washing machine pump to be in­ stalled. New reporter elected. Ship's 'fund $12. Few hours disputed ot. No major beefs. Reports accepted. Ship to be cleared of cockroaches before sign-on. Suggestions re: oily shower water. Rooms and galley to be sprayed for bugs. Vote of thanks to men on Robin Une ships for SlU victory: OCBANSTAR (TrHon), Jan. 34 — Chairman, C. Oglatbyi Bocrotary, R. MorrlMtte. New delegate elected, lee box will be repaired. Obtained •ew washing machine. WiU get new lee box next trip. Request copies of BOG. SEATRAIN OEORGIA (Seatrain), Fob. 14—Chairman, S. Charlau Sec­ retary, A. Lambert. Ship's fund $2SRS. Report' accepted. Coffee to be made for ateward dept. by 4 to » watch. Contact patrolman about installing pay telephone booths in Texas City. Savannah and New Orleans. MAIDEN CREEK (Waterman), Jan. IS—Chairman, C. Owens; Secretary, C. Slovar. Ship's fund $820. Some disputed ot. New delegate elected. lEvery member to contribute $1 to ship's fund. Suggestion to purchase electric heaters for foc'sles aft. "Onoff" light to be installed dn washing machine. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for excellent food. ALCCA PURITAN (Alcoa), Jan. 17 —Chairman, J. Rrasfleld; Sacratary, R. Festo. Beefs settled. Master to de­ cide on breaking of watches. Wiper lined $10 for not performing sanitary: Motion to have mcetinga on week­ ends. if possible. Cook elected dele­ gate. Treuu^r elected. Start aUp'S fund with dunfUoffS- IRENESTAR (Triton), Fob. 23— Chairman, T. Hall; Sacratary, M. Andarton. Repair list to be posted. Clean payoff in HohUe. Ships fund $11.52. New delegate elected. Discussions on use and care ot washing machine. Cigaret butts not to be placed in coffee cups. Put soUed cups la sink, keep mesroom clean. Three mattresaes WINTER HILL (Cities Service), Feb. 9—Chairman, J. Dklnque; Sacratary, J. Bergerla. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard dept. Repair Ust tiimed in—no work done as yet. STEEL SEAFARER (isMimlan), Feb. S—Chairman, H. Ceutlnt; Sacratary, nana. Repairs being made---otbers to *•* ordered for unlicensed personnel not delivered. FAIRLAND (Pan Atlantic), FOb. 20— Chairman, W. D. Making; Secretary, A. C. Beck, Thanks to department delegates for good cooperation. Noted good and prompt response by head­ quarters on all beefs and quejtions. Letters from BiU HaU regarding re­ pair Ust and one day's pay posted. Ship's fund $39. WiU purchase TV set. Discussion on food and TV set. Linen to be turned in. Jan. 12—Chairman, J. Sweoney; Secretary, J. Wunderllch. Feeding pro­ gram to be speeded up; repair list to be submitted. Crew warn^ about performing. New treasurer elected. Donation of $1 to be made toward ships fund. ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), Feb. 23— Chairman, 6. Matting; Secretary, S. Fairfield. $122.50 in movie fund. Obmin toaster for steward messroom. Discussion on successful party held by crew in cross passageway. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), Feb. 33—Chairman, A. Alsebreeksi Sacratary, C. Kralu. Oiler missed ship—^headquarters notified. Members cautioned to be aboard one hour be­ fore sailing. Ship sailed short one man. Ship's fund $71.34. Few hours disputed ot. Request better crackers; ship's meetings to be alternated, once In the afternoon and once at night. Do not leave clothes in washing machine too long. ••••••••••••I DEL MAR (Mississippi), Jan. 1— Chairman, Bannister; Secretary, C. M. Dowllng. Anyone needing other COPE cards contact delegate. Number of letters regarding closing of hospital to be sent in later. New delegate elected. Report accepted. Glasses to be re­ turned to the pantry. No beefs. Little disputed ot. Payoff okay. Patrolman pleased. Crew warned of loggings. Ships fund $19.55. AMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Feb. It—Chairman, T. HIrsh; Secre­ tary, R. H. Simpson. Night Cook and Baker left ship due to illness.—Stew­ ard shifted man from ntiUty to baker and new man assigned as pantryman. Few hours disputed ot. Crew told to check fane before hot weather is en­ countered. ROBIN CRAY (Robin), Feb. 14— Chairman, T. Harmon; Secretary, W. Fitch. Painting in steward dept. in­ completed. Minor disputes to be dis­ cussed with patrolman at payoff. Some disputed Ot. Bosun from Robin .Kirk extended vote of thanks to crew members for extra consideration given him. Vote of thanks to steward dept. for fine service. OCEAN EVA (Maritime Overseas), Feb. 14—Chairman, H. Schwartx; Sac­ ratary, N. King. One member missed ship in PR. Mate disputing ot. Need new washing machine. Some disputed ot. Wasting machine to be repaired. New pump needed. Vote of thanks to ' steward dept. for excellent planning and preparation of food. » Editor, I SEAFARERS LOG. ; 675 Fourth Ave.," j Brooklyn 32, NY I I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG— I please put my name on your mailing list. ! (Print Information) :NAME ......... ! STREET ADDRESS [CITY .ZONE STATE • TO AVOID DUPUCATION: If you are an old tubterllior and hava a changa • of address, please give your former address below: • ADDRESS ••••••••••••••••••••••••banJ Z0NE..:...>L4TATE..; �Tigrn ffMrfeea SEAFARERS LOG 8IU Cooks' Tour ^ SIU HAll DIREdORY P' ': * lililBIII^! SIU, A&G District BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Earl Sbeppard. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON ... 27* Stati St. Jamea Sbeehan. Agent Ricbmond 2-0140 4202 Canal St. HOUSTON... Robert Mattbewa. Agent CaplUI 3-4089; 3-4080 LAKE CHARLES. 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Joint iTT . ft llO-' iMllli , ^'• fe !i ., :|||||||||||||||||||g||||p r# II;I El, iii»iiiiPiM^ ' lilBiii iiliplPif iiiiiiiiiil «b«A^ " SUP IMIIiiiii HONOLULU iPiiE J-rft: ; MM The happy threesome on the John B. Kulukundis (top), after dinner is done, includes (I to r) Frank Rakas, Jr., chief cook; Dallas Byrd, night cook and baker, and William Alvaro, steward. On the Steel Surveyor, with the work still ahead of them, are Dave Polite, 2nd cook and baker; Earl Fancher, chief cook; Angel Valdas, galleyman, and Jose Rodriguez, 3rd cook. Canadian District LOG-A-RHYTHM: HALIFAZ. N.S Meditation In The Night I. - •'C-- By John Wnnderlich Your heart feels light. Decks deserted in the night. Are quiet. In memory of deeds In the past, long gone; Bathed in bright moonlight. My friendly companion*. You are alone, but not forgotten^ The shadows of the mast and falls, Sympathize in silence; The stars shine bright above you, And agree that there is peace The porpoises play up ahead; In the loneliness of the night. Wind hums softly in the rigging. Giant engines pulse dovm below; They tell you and me About the greatness of the uni­ Sign Name On verse. LOG Letters 4i- For obvious reasons the LOG cannot print any letters or other communications sent in by Seafarers unless the author signs his name. Unsigned anonymous letters will only wind up in the waste-basket. If circumstances " justify, the LOG will withhold-a signature on request. .16 Merchant St. Pbone 5-8777 PORTLAND 211 SW Qay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND. Calif....510 Macdonald Ave. BEacon 2-0925 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 2505 1st Ave. SEATTLE. Main 0290 WfLHINGTON 505 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK S7S 4tta Ave.. Brooklyn HYacintb 94165 In the night The stars are like your eyes. When looking into mine; And I whisper to the wind About your beauty and charms. How my love can cross the ocean; And throw the air up to the stars. To let them know That I am now And always will be yours. ISSVi, HoUis St. Phone 38911 MONTREAL 63* St James St. West PLatean 8161 FORT WnXlAM. 408 Simpson St Ontario ' Pbonei 33321 PORT COLBORNE .103 Durham St Ontario Pbone: 5591 TORONTO. OnUrlo.......372 King St. E EMpire 4-5719 VICTORIA. BC ei7H Cormorant St. EMpire 4531 VANCOUVER. BC .298'Main St.. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY. NS . .304 Charlotte St. Phone: 6346 BAGOTVILLE. Quebee 20 Elgin St.~ Phone: 545 THOROLD. Ontario .....82 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3203 QUEBEC 44 Sault-au-Matelot Quebeo Phone: 31569 SAINT JOHN 177 Prince WUUam St. NB OX 35431 Great Lakes District ALPENA 1215 N. Second Ave. •— Phone: 713-J BUFFALO, NY 180 Main St. Phone: Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE Phone: Main 1-0147 DETROIT ; .-...1038 3rd St. Phone: Woodward 1-6857 DULWH 621 W. Supertor St. Phone: Randclpb 34110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St. Phone: Essex 5-2410 Mareii 14, l»St Urges Hospital Benefit Overseas as wsU SS the efforts of those .'Who worked closely with your officials in making this a successful visit. To tho Editor: Thomu M. Holleran I wish to express an opinion Chief, Trade Union of something needed under our Programs Division Seafarers.Welfare Plan. As you know, a single Seafarer hasn't (Ed. nofc: The group was on too much to gain in the way^f a tour supervised by the US De­ benefits other than those for partment of Labor, Office of death or vacations. International Labor Affairs, and I'm concerned about the also visited SIU headquarters brothers hospitalized in foreign later.) ports, since the welfare benefits only cover Seafarers hospital- Letters To The Editor AH letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names loill be withheld upon request. ized here in the good old USA. I think this qiatter should be taken up by the trustees of our welfare plan and given more consideration. The man laid up in a foreign hospital, especially in an extreme emergency, should hot be overlookedRudy Meigoaa (Ed. note: Unmarried Seafar­ ers, depending-on their age and health, can qualify for 10 of 16 present benefits of the SIU Welfare Plan, plus vacation "pay. Although the welfare plan's hos­ pital benefit doesn't cover situa­ tions overseas, the SIU contract does provide for repatriation upkeep of $8 per day and medi­ cal care at shipowner expense, plus advances in wages until the seaman can be returned home.) Finds The LOG Good Reading To the Editor: I haven't heard from my brother, Gilbert "Bill" Essberg, in almost three years, and I anxiously scan every issue of your excellent paper. Perhapa this will reach him. May I commend you on my favorite column, "Your Dollar's Worth?" I clip these guides to better buying and refer to them constantly. I've always found them to be dependable, reliable and very helpful. To a house­ wife, far from ^ the sea, your many interesting articles are very enjoyable. The entire paper is excellent. Mrs. Hugh Q. Gibbs, Jr. Birmingham, Ala.' 4 4 More Shipping Detaiis Urged To the Editor: The shipping report appear­ ing in the SEAFARERS LOG gives^ an excellent overall pic­ ture of shipping. However, we believe, after having talked with several brothers on the subject, that this report could further aid the men who ship in one rating only were-it to include a break­ 4" t , 4> down of departments by ratings. Thus, a man 'shipping only as Tour Impressed baker, for example, would then French Visitors have a clearer picture of his To the Editor: chances of shipping in his par­ I have been Informed by Mr. ticular rating in a given port. Emile Lafiamme, team manager, We hope that you will ^ive from this office who was with this suggest your earnest con­ the visiting group of French sideration and attention so as . merchant marine unionists, of to bring it into practice. your union's splendid coopera­ C. C. Linden tion and assistance to him dur­ James Fuller ing his recent visit to Boston. 4 4 4 Mr. Lafiamme expressed to us the group's enthusiasm about Cigars Are In the courtesy shown them and the opportunity afforded them Order, Grandpa to visit the Boston port in actual To the Editor: operation. They were apprecia­ We read the LOG faithfully. tive of this interest and com­ My husband is at sea so much mented favorably on the labor- of the time that we don't get to management relations as shown talk much of the goings-on. by the visit on the SS Topa However, we find all the Topa. They also commented on newsy news in the SEAFARERS the fine arrangements made for LOG. The first page we turn to lunch and on the visit to the is "Your Dollar's . Worth" and Boston hall and the very cordial the others follow me. We think reception given them. this column is terrific and has We fully realize that the suc­ been very helpful to us in shop­ cess of this type of program ping and otherwise. would-be impossible without I'd appreciate a note hi the such cooperation. I would like personals' column to advise my you to know that we in the De­ husband that he's a grandpa partment of Labor deeply ap­ again—a girl this time. preciate these personal efforts Mrs. R. P. Bowman I �SEAFARERS March 14. l»n LOG Pace tifteca Back Home In Florida Steaks May Be Higher But Ships Are Bargains Prices for second hand ships in recent sales have dropped to the low 1954 level, a recent survey of ship markets showed. Although few shipowners expected the pric^for Liberty-type vessels to drop below the half-"^ million dollar mark, the Amer- fail to materialize. Many are pres­ .carr-controlled Evimar was re­ ently taking on grain cargoes. More cently sold for a low of $340,000, than three million tons of tanker more than a $1 million drop in tonnage is presently idle while value over the past year for. ships over 100,000 tons was sold for scrap last fall. of that class. A similar slump has been report­ But not all shipowners are -ready ed in the tanker industry where to unload their ships, according to more vessels are heading for lay- a ship broker. Many feel that up or the scrap pile as oil cargoes they have weathered depressed markets before and will weather this one. Most of those selling now, it was said, are doing so to secure cash to cover commitments for new construction or for mort­ gage payments. Although there is not much traf­ fic for. tankers, freely-transferrable foreign T-2 tankers, most of them owned by Greek interests, are be­ ing offered for $950,000, or about one-half what they would have brought in last fall. The SIU Welfare Plan reports the following death benefits paid: Benedikt Smoljan, 58: On Feb­ ruary 3, 1958, Brother Smoljan died from natural causes in Staten Island, N.Y. He became a full member of the Union on June 1, 1946, and sailed in the engine de­ partment. He is survived by a brother, Robert Smoljan, of Gardina, Calif. Burial took place in St. Charles Cemetery, Farmingdale, Long Island, N.Y. $ Anton! Plaza, 50: Brother Plaza died from accidental causes on Jan­ uary 4, 1958 in Newark, N.J. He be­ came a full member of the Union on December 2, 1944, and was sail­ ing in the deck department. Place of burial is unknown. TO SHIPS W ATLANTIC • SOUTH AMNUCAN • EUROPEAN WATERS THE FIRST DIRECT VOICE BROADCAST TO SHIPS' CREWS Evmy syNBAY • -'-I fair Ceatt af Sauth Amorlca, South AtlanIK and Eait Caatt of UnHwl SiatM. wru5.1SBS0 Kb thlpi In Gu» of MMico, Caribbean, Weit Coot of South Amer­ ica, West Cooei of Mexico and US Eon Cerut. ' BMT Voice ef He MTP vffx-w.msoKa Shipt In Caribbean, f ^ - - WFK-tS, iam Kb Ihipe In Mediterranean area. North Atlantic, Eura^n and US Eod Cooit UP-TO'THE-MINUTB UNION AND MARITIME iSilsa NEWS OP SPECIAL INTEREST TO YOUl BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEEP SEA UNIONS OP THE MARiriME fRADiS RERARfMENr SlUAAG MSTRKT * SUP * MfOW * MCS * ROU • MMftP • EME • SlUXANAOIAN DISTRKT ^mmmrnrnmrn^ ^ ~ Lynda end Cor! Ivan Copper Jr., children of Seafarer Carl Ivan Copper, are shown In front of their Zephyrhiils, Florida, home. Kenneth Singh Get in touch with Paul M. Gold­ stein, attorney, Suite 506, 1201 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 7, Pa. 4 4^ i Charlee W. Maynard Contact Alex Leiter, care/of the Seatrain New York, concerning the pilot license. it 4" 4r Frank L. Shackelford Contact Mrs. F. L. Shackelford at Box 329', Laskin Road, Virginia Beach, Va. 4> 4i 4^ ' I Jerome L. Manning Please get in touch with Eunis J. Barrios, 613 Ave. G, Marrera, La., telephone FI-12070. ^ 4> 4> 4" 4^ 4> I Pat Moran I ex-Council Grove The above-named was -on the I Council Grove in November^ 1950, I along with James Enwright. He is •i.,*- •• mm M; mh|'. Australia WMM 25-15607 KCs Narthwest Pacific WMM 81-TI037.S 4) 4> ^ John Lee Nngent Contact your wife at 1127 18th Street, Galveston, .Texas. 4 4 4< William Berry Please contact Mrs. Annabelle Wingo, 111 W. Whitney Drive, Houston 18, Texas. .• j • -i Baltimore Is 'Holding Own' • .4 4^ ^ 4> BALTIMORE—The last -ACS Oscar A. Rosenfelt ship, the Coal Miner, was in port Contact Baltimore port agent here for a few days last week. The Earl Sheppard as soon as p6ssible. men on the beach expressed their appreciation at the fine job the i i i SIU old timers are doing aboard GUbert (BiU) Essberg Please contact your sister at 132 her. A number of men served ag Sterrett Court, Apt. 29, Birming­ reliefs on the ship to give the oldtimers some rest. ham 9, Ala. Shipping has been fair for the 4> i ^ period while registration increased Billle Pagett a good bit. There were 10 vessels Carroll Sypher paying off dwing the period. They Syd Turner were the Emilia. Mae (Bull); Chick­ Red McHale requests that you asaw (Pan-Atlantic); Wellesley Vic­ contact Arthur Abarbanel, attor­ tory (Victory Carriers); Chilore. ney, at Miller and Seeger, 26 Court Cubore, Feltore, Baltore, Santore Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Ore) and the Kenmar (Calmar). . 4^ 4> 4^ Signing on were the Mankato Vic­ Anyone who left gear in the Mo­ tory (Victory Carriers); Producer bile baggage room for more than (Marine Carriers); Fiomar, Kenmar a year is asked to claim it within (Calmar); Chickasaw (Waterman); 60 days. Unclaimed gear will be Chilore, Cubore, Feltore, Baltore disposed of. and the Santore (Ore). The in4^ $ » transit vessels were the Santore (Ore); Alcoa Pilgrim, Alcoa Run­ Oskar Kaelep Contact Arnold G. Heinval c/o ner (Alcoa); Bethcoaster (Calmar); Bull Steamship Company (SS Su­ Ste^ Scientist, Steel Flyer, Steel zanne) or via the SEAFARERS Seafarer (Isthmian); Government Camp (Cities Service); Ines,- Jean LOG. (Bull); John B. Waterman (Water^ man) and the Coal Miner (ACS). Gene S. Long So far as can be predicted, ship­ Urgent you contact your mother at Route 2, Box 59, Sutton, West ping for the next period should hold its own. The Texmar will crew Va. She is ill. up at the end of the week, leaving 4^ 4> 4^ only the Portmar and the Omar Anthony J. Zaich Contact Nicholas Carter, 1421 Chapman idle in the area. Berger Building, Philadelphia 19, Pa. regarding estate settlement. R. P. Bowman You are a grandfather again. ^ A girl this time. Daughter Bar­ bara flow lives 8705 La Salle St. EVERY SUNDAY. 1915 GMT | xxrMdnAv nsie (2:15 PM EST Sunday) . EVERY MONDAY, 0315 GMT • off Moody St., Buena Park, Cali­ f Europe and North Aimrica I (10:15 PM EST Sunday) | fornia. Meanwhile, MTD f WCO-13020 KCs ^Roiind^he-Worid ^ I Koit Coast South America ^f^reless Broadcasts ^ WCO-16908.8 KCe I Cocut South America Continue v;. J J * wt.rWCO-22407 1 KCs Sheehan, SIU Boston port agent, as Mrs. Enwright would like to contact him, * Don't Send Your Baggage COD Seafarers are again warned not to send their baggage COD to any Union hall. The Union cannot accept delivery of any baggage where express charges have not been prepaid. Men who send baggage COD to Union halls face the prospect of having to-go to a lot of trou­ ble and red tape with the Rail- <T .'•'4 �SEAFARERS#L06 :- • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC A N IT GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • 3ea Law Meet Wrangles Over Three-Mile Rule GENEVA—Proposals to extend the generally-recognized three-mile limit for territorial waters are causing a furor at an 80-nation international conference on the law of the sea which opened here last month.• . The debate over what con­ selves at "war" with Israel despite stitutes the "high seas" and the uneasy "truce" in effect for where territorial waters begin and end is-probably the knottiest issue Itefore the conference. Several countries want an extension of the present three-mile limit to 12 miles. Others have historically claimed a disputed territorial limit of up to 200 miles around their coastline. ' Of immediate concern are ef­ forts by Indonesia tp extend her territofiaT limit to 12 miles at'sea and Russia's declaration of Vladi­ vostok Bay as internal waters. The US spokesman here has attacked these as "one-sided" acts infringing on the freedom of the seas. He said the US would continue to *'treat them as if they didn't exist." Would Affect Nariration . The freedom of the seas issde is naturally of vital interest to the shipping Industry. Extensions of various territorial waters would in­ crease problems of navigation, add hours or days to many sea routes and place certsin international straits "off-limits" by making them territorial waters. Fishing fleets of various contries which fish out­ side the three-mile limit in whatare now open waters off the coasts of other nations would be guilty of "trespassing." This has long been a problem as close to home as in the Gulf of Mexico where Ame-'ican . shrimpboats are regularly accused of vio­ lating Mexican waters by fishing too closd inshore. It would also add new facets to the already-tangled legal hassle between the 'Federal Government and various Southern -states over the offshore oil fields. The-right of free access to the -disputed Gulf of Aqaba in the Middle East is a key issue, high­ lighted by a Saudi Arabian declar­ ation at the conference that what­ ever rules and codes the confer­ ence adopted could only apply in time of peace anyway. Most of the Arab hations still consider them- f' ' ' i-:" '- .;• 1;. I - S>'-. i ft"' 1. br.-v . Ilx-- I. •V-, '• I SCHEDUIE OF SlU MEETINGS m'lavA'v. :.j;... • t,.--. f y- --kt-r • rvi'' • •• SiU membership meet­ ings are held regularly every two weeks on Wed­ nesday nights at 7 PM in all SIU ports. All Sea­ farers are expected to attend; those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include reg­ istration number). The next SIU meetings will be: March 19. April 2 April 16 almost ten years. Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal in 1956 and the subsequent closing of the canal at the outset of Israeli and combined British-French hos­ tilities in Egypt that fall drama­ tized the situation anew. Thus, an Arab boycott of ships and planes coming to and from Israel is con­ tinuing, as in the case of the SIUmanned tanker Kern Hills last Spring. First Ship Through Gulf , The Kern Hills was the first ship to steam through the Gulf of Aqaba to the new Israeli oil port of Ellat in the face of Arab guns. The US subsequently affirmed the right of all shipping to use the. disputed Gulf and classified it as "inter­ national" waters. Supporters of the existing threemile limit, such as Britain, contend that the extent of the territorial seas is a matter governed by inter­ national law, and that nations can't fix these limits at their own dis­ cretion. The British say that extension of the territorial seas would widen the area in which coastal states could\ exercise jurisdiction over other countries' merchant ships, "with resulting del;<,ys and hin­ drances to navigation." It would also make it more difficult for small vessels to fiiil' their position from shore and reduce the effec­ tiveness of radar and lighthouses. February 19 Through March 4 o«efc"" A Part Boston New Y( Norfolk . Savannah . 3 5 Lake Charles Houston Wilmington .. San Francisco Seattle ...... . . 9 11 Pack Total ... T' . 300 Port Dock Ooek B A ....6 2 Boston ' 64 13 New York Philadelphia ....... .... 32 1 .... 35 14 Baltimore .... 4 3 Norfolk 0 2 Tampa 12 Mobile .'... .... 32 7 New Orleans ...... 1 Lake Charles ..... ..... 2 18 Houston ........... .... 41 0 Wilmington 0 San Francisco .<.... 0 .... 2 Seattle Deck Dock AB 73 Total .......... OMR B 2 13 3 14 4 0 4 . 4 . 12 7 17 2 5 9 D*CR -s 96 Bni. A 5 53 17 33 5 3 6 15 32 12 17 2 10 8 •na._ A '^ 218 Bnt. B 2 18 2 15 2 0 1 7 9 12 8 4 7 5 Bna. 92 •tMir. A. 5 54 20 27 1 2 5 26 36 6 . 17 7 14 •teW. A ' 227 •Mw. B 1 8 2 19 6 0 3 8 11 1 12 3 6 6 ttaw. -B 86 ratal A 14 185 51 101 12 8 16 68 127 28 63 13 33 26 Total A 745 Total B 5 39 7 48 12 0 8 19 32 20 -37 9 18 20 Total B ' 274 Total ROB. 19 224 58 149 24 8 24 87 159 48 100 22 51 46 Total Shipped Dock Ins. Bns. Ins. stow. A B C C " A 1 1 0 2 0 4^ 51 19 44 1 10 3 ^0 19 0 24 3 13 25 25 1 0 0 0 3 6 0 0 0 0 4 3 0 5 4 2 3 30 26 18 1 0 28 0 30 5 3 5 1 0 11 0 14 0 19 16 2 0 2 - 0 2 , 0 6 7 0 1 0 5 0 3 1 Dock Bns. inf. Ins. stow. A C A . ' B C 177 103 12 23 198 Stow. stow. Total Total B e B A 0 0 2 1 7 8 159 30 4 75 8 15 73 ; .54 8 1 12 1 0 5 1 3 0 8 12 8 3 88 36 97 12 2 24 10 17 5 5 23 0 74 59 1 0 5 3 0 0 16 1 3 0 10 4 stow. stow. Total Total c B A ' -B83 640 21 259 r Total c 2 31 0 5 1 0 2 7 2 6 0 0 0 0 Total .c 56 Total smp. 13 220 83 132 20 6 22 131 123 33 133 8 17 14 Total snip. 055 Shipping and registration in SIU ports increased during the past two weeks» reversing the downward trend in both listings. The total shipping was 955; registration rose to 1,019. All of the job rise was reflected i» the class B figure, as class A activity declined further. Class C shipping maintained^'-r ^ Boston, New York, Baltimore, leans accounted overall for 77 per­ the status quo. Five ports showed increases Norfolk, Lake Charles, San Fran­ cent of the A&G shipping. West over the previous period, but only three of them enjoyed any marked gain. Philadelphia, Mobile and Houston rose substantially; Tampa only slightly,, and Wilmington by even less. cisco and Seattle all fell ^off to some degree, and Savannah and New Orleans remained the same as before. Taken together with Mobile and Houston, the major ports of New York, Baltimore and "New Or- Panama Ship Seeks Canada $ Already bedeviled by one hot potato in its approval of the transfer of strikebound Can­ adian National ships to a foreign flag, the Canadian government is running head-on into a similar issue. This summer, the nmaway-fiag vessel Yarmouth, is scheduled to return to its old run between Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and Boston, re­ trict won immediate support in its The Yarmouth was at one time portedly with the benefit of a strike from the International Trans- contracted to the SIU A&G District Coast shipping continues to be very much on the slow bell. However, despite the gains for class B, Boston, Savannah, Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle between them dispatched fewer than a dozen B jobs. The actual seniority breakdown of the total shipping was 67 per­ cent for class A, 27 percent for class B and six percent for class C. Six ports shipped no men in class C. ^ The following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Slow... New York: Good . . .Philadelphia: Fair . . . Baltimcre: Steady . . . Norfolk: Fair . .. Savannah: Slow .... Tampa: Fair .. . Mobile: Good ... New Orleansr Good . . . Lake Charles: Fair . > • Houston: Good . . . Wilmington, San Frwolsco, Seatfle: Slow direct subsidy from the Nova poi'tworkers Federation as well as while under the American flag. In Scotian provincial government. light of-the Canadian National beef, all SlU of NA affiliates. " The Yarmouth, along with her As a resultr the.eight Canadian it remains to be seen if the Nova sister ship, the Evangeline, was on National ships have been idle Scotian government will go this run under American-flag since last July, with no settlement through with plans to subsidize a operation up to 1954. In that year in sight. second runaway-flag operation. both ships transferred foreign and went into service to the West In­ dies out of Miami. Now, the owners of the Yarmouth announcie they will return to the Nova Scotian service, under the runaway flag of Panama. It has been reported that some ratings on the Yarmouth are paid as little as $45 a month under her present operation. In effect then, the Nova Scotian government would be subsidizing a runaway flag operation between US and Canada. Canada does not subsidize any of her own deep-sea merchant ship­ ping. The Canadian National strike aroused international furore when the company attempted to transfer the Government-owned vessels to Trinidad registry in the middle of the beef. Efforts to man the ships with Imported crews failed when Now under Panamaniod flag, Yarmouth Is shown In days Vhen she sailed as US-fldg ship on both English and West Indian sea­ Scotia-Boston summer run. Eastern Steamship company is seeking ta return to this service with aid men's unions refused to touch the ships and , the SIU Caniadiair Dli^ • r^ • I r-'.ia '-1 Vy � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 14, 1958 Description An account of the resource Headlines: RUNAWAYS IN BID FOR US REGISTRY ENGINEERS APPROVE MERGER PLAN SIU PLAN BROADENS CHILD AID ‘MILD BOOM’ IN PROSPECT FOR MOBILE ANOTHER NMU ‘INJUN’ BITES DUST – WHO BOUNCED MCDOUGALL? SIU SEEKS TO INTERVENE IN NMU ROBIN LINE SUIT ISTHMIAN IN KNOCK-DOWN FMB FIGHT NEW YORK FINDS SHIPPING HOLDING UP, MEN CHOOSY ANOTHER TWO COAL SHIPS BONEYARD; RECALL OF 3RD DUE ONASSIS WOULD DUCK OUT ON US-FLAG SUPERTANKER AFL-CIO NOTIFIES ALL INT’L UNIONS TO COMPLY ON ETHICS 40,000 IN FLORIDA LIVING OFF HANDOUTS TANKER MAY HET ATOM PLANT SEEK TO CONCILIATE CANADA PACT BEEF PROPOSE BIG BOOST IN US FARM CARGO STEAKS MAY BE HIGHER BUT SHIPS ARE BARGAINS SEA LAW MEET WRANGLES OVER THREE-MILE RULE PANAMA SHIP SEEKS CANADA $ Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 03/14/1958 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. XX, No. 6 1958 Periodicals Seafarers Log